Appeal No. 2000-1833
Application 09/002,650
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A portable shelf for mounting on a wall affixed towel
bar of width W that is spaced a distance N from the wall,
comprising:
a plurality of rods each having an essentially uniform
cross-section;
a plurality of brackets each having a top, back, bottom and
front where said top has a plurality of through-openings that are
aligned horizontally and that have a cross-section that is
essentially the same as said rod’s cross-section,
said back has a vertical edge,
said bottom has at least one through-opening that has a
cross-section that is essentially the same as said rod’s cross-
section, and
said front extends downward from a point that is more than N
distant from said back’s vertical edge to a point that is less
than N distant from said back’s vertical edge; and
said rods and said brackets are connected by sliding each of
said rods within each similar one of said through-openings such
that the outermost of said brackets are spaced less then W,
whereby a shelf that can be supported by the towel bar and the
wall is effected.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Whitehead et al. (Whitehead) 5,706,737 Jan. 13, 1998
Adams 5,711,434 Jan. 27, 1998
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