Ex parte WENDEL - Page 6




          Appeal No. 98-1040                                                          
          Application 08/388,573                                                      


          disclosed by Green.  To do so would apparently render the                   
          Solari stand incapable of its essential folding                             
          characteristic.  Thus, even if the Solari and Green references              
          are analogous art (the appellant argues that they are not),                 
          their combined teachings would not have suggested the subject               
          matter recited in claim 1 to one of ordinary skill in the art.              
          Since Manlove, Citterio and Cobos do not cure this                          























          fundamental flaw in the examiner's evidence of obviousness, we              
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