Appeal No. 2001-1898
Application No. 08/835,945
Appellants' invention involves a means for securing a
parking meter housing, lamp fixture, coin or collection box or
other electrical or mechanical device to a hollow post, pipe or
conduit (specification, page 1). The claims on appeal are
reproduced in the appendix of appellants' brief.1
The references applied in the final rejection are:2
Fox 1,096,235 May 12, 1914
Guthrie 4,693,656 Sept. 15, 1987
Stenberg 890,023 Oct. 25, 1943
(French patent)
Cure 1,386,323 Dec. 14, 1964
(French patent)
An additional reference, applied herein in a rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b), is:
Snap-on Tools Corp. 1991-1992 Catalog, page 233.
The appealed claims stand finally rejected as follows:
(1) Claims 55 and 56, unpatentable for failure to comply with
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph;
(2) Claims 47 to 56, anticipated under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) by
(i) Fox [and (ii) Guthrie;
1 References herein to appellants' brief are to the brief filed on July 20, 2000 (Paper No.
25).
2 Translations of the two cited French patents, prepared for the PTO, are forwarded to
appellants herewith. References herein to these two patents are to the translations.
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