Appeal No. 2000-0856 Page 2
Application No. 08/676,623
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a toilet seating
system for use by adults and children upon a commode assembly.
A copy of claim 2 under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief. 1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Alexander 54,480 May
8, 1866
Grunz 4,451,940 June 5,
1984
Miller 5,448,781 Sep. 12,
1995
Hancock 124,022 May 1,
1947
(Australia)
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Hancock in view of Alexander, Miller and
Grunz.
1In the last paragraph of claim 2, the word "thickens"
should be amended to be --thickness-- for consistency within
the claim.
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