Appeal No. 98-2164 Page 2
Application No. 08/587,931
other claims present in the application, have been indicated as
being allowable subject to the requirement that they be
rewritten to include all the subject matter of the claims from
which they depend.
We REVERSE.
The appellant's invention pertains to a drawer the nature
of which is readily apparent from a perusal of independent
claim 11. A copy of claim 11 may be found in the APPENDIX to
the brief.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Lautenschläger 5,439,285 Aug. 8,
1995
Claims 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as being anticipated by Lautenschläger. According to the
examiner:
Lautenschläger teaches a drawer, as illustrated
in Figures 1-9, comprising a front panel (18), two
drawer sides (20), and a rear panel (16). The two
drawer sides (20) each have a lateral U-shaped
profile with upper and lower horizontal bars (26,24)
for the insertion of a drawer base (14) with a groove
(30). Each drawer side (20) has a single projection
(28a) which projects into the groove (30) of the
drawer base. The front panel is joined to the two
drawer sides by means of fixing devices which are
conventional in the art. [Answer, page 3-4.]
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