Appeal No. 1998-1240
Application 08/198,443
reference combinations are founded on impermissible hindsight.
Finally, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. §
103 rejection of claims 1 through 11 and 13 through 26 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hirsch in view of
Zaruba, Wetzel, Johnson, Puste, Anglin, Bardin, Mosgoffian and
Henrich.
This rejection rests on the basic combination of Hirsch,
Zaruba, Wetzel and Johnson.
Hirsch discloses a basketball backboard set 10 comprising
a backboard 12 and a hoop 14.
Zaruba discloses a basketball game 11 which includes a
backboard 13 “to which is attached a laminated full color
overlie 15 which may contain an illustration of a famous
basketball player along with a trademark indicating the source
of the game” (column 1, lines 61 through 64).
Wetzel discloses a basketball backboard structure 2
having a protective bumper structure 6 removably attached to
its bottom and lower side edges.
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