Appeal No. 1999-2088 Page 2
Application No. 08/782,243
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to rectangular-faced
enclosures. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 8 and 15 (the
independent claims on appeal), which appear in the appendix to
the appellant's brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Landenberger 941,525 Nov. 30, 1909
Claims 1, 3 to 8, 10 to 15 and 17 to 21 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Landenberger.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No.
5, mailed June 26, 1998) and the answer (Paper No. 12, mailed
February 1, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 11,
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