Appeal No. 1999-0524
Application 08/735,228
1) teaches a guide suspension for drawers of a filing cabinet,
in particular, that permits the drawers to be moved out of the
cabinet from either of the opposite sides thereof. However,
for reasons delineated, infra, we are of the opinion that this
evidence simply would not have been suggestive of the
examiner’s proposed modification.
Initially, we note that the examiner has not set forth in
the body of the rejection an explanation of the manner in
which the Hines vehicle container arrangement would have been
modified or altered by one of ordinary skill in the art to
thereby effect
the content of the claimed invention. Thus, we lack an under-
standing of the examiner’s specific basis for the conclusion
of obviousness. Nevertheless, it appears to us that any
alteration of the vehicle container arrangement of Hines, to
bring about a configuration as claimed, would require and
entail a major overhaul of the Hines arrangement to the extent
that the patentee’s anti-theft objective of an easily
accessible bar and lock arrangement positioned outboard and
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