Appeal No. 98-3306
Application 08/866,014
Appellants’ invention relates to an athletic souvenir
display rack having athletic ball supporting structures in the
form of alphabetic characters arranged to provide the
alphabetic acronym initials of a particular institution.
Independent claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a substantially correct copy of that claim may be
found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.2
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:3
Grave 270,549 May 12, 1927
(British)
Holland 593,934 Oct. 29, 1947
(British)
Claims 1, 5 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Grave in view of Holland.
2 As indicated by the examiner (answer, page 2), in line 14 of claim 1 as it
appears in the Appendix the word ---the--- should be inserted before the phrase “at
least three tip portions.”
3 Both of the applied references are published British provisional applications.
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