Ex parte WIELAND et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 2000-0322                                       Page 3           
          Application No. 08/855,921                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellants' invention relates generally to furniture               
          and the packaging of furniture for shipment and storage                     
          (specification, p. 1).  A copy of the claims under appeal is                
          set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.                         


               The prior art references of record relied upon by the                  
          examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:                              
          Christian                     2,692,007                     Oct.            
          19, 1954                                                                    
          Dunbar et al.            3,458,966                     Aug.  5,             
          1969                                                                        
          (Dunbar)                                                                    
          Wilson                   3,540,776                     Nov. 17,             
          1970                                                                        
          Zur                      4,078,842                     Mar. 14,             
          1978                                                                        
          Bubien                   4,881,779                     Nov. 21,             
          1989                                                                        



               Claims 1, 3, 6-8, 15-18, 20 and 25 stand rejected under                
          35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Bubien in view of                
          Dunbar.                                                                     











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