Appeal No. 2001-0314
Application No. 09/102,677
Claims 11, 13 and 14, the only other claims pending in the
application, stand allowed.
THE INVENTION
The subject matter on appeal relates to a motor vehicle
flood protection apparatus (claims 3, 5 through 9, 15 and 16)
and to a method of folding same after use (claim 10). A copy
of the claims at issue appears in the appendix to the
appellants’ main brief (Paper No. 6). 2
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Battle 4,315,535 Feb. 16, 1982
Lohse 4,930,557 Jun. 5, 1990
Tall 5,458,945 Oct. 17,
1995
Chiang 5,497,819 Mar. 12, 1996
THE REJECTIONS
2The terms “said other end wall” in claims 5 and 6 and
“said end and wall panels” in claim 8 lack a proper antecedent
basis. Based on preceding claim terminology, it would appear
that these terms should be –-said end walls–- and -–said end
and side panels–-, respectively.
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