Appeal No. 2000-1963
Application No. 09/272,989
video cameras” (specification, page 1). Claim 1 reads as
follows:
1. An anti-glare device for use with objective lenses
mounted in a housing, said device comprising:
an elongated strip of flexible, soft material having a
length between ends to wrap around a housing containing
objective lenses and to overlap on itself, a width to project
from said housing and sufficient rigidity to maintain an
encircling formation projecting from said housing;
connector means fixed to one face of one of said ends of
said elongate strip of flexible soft material; and
co-operating connector means fixed to at least an
opposite end of said elongate strip of flexible, soft
material, said connector means interlocking when one of said
ends overlaps the other of said ends when said elongate strip
is wrapped around and projects from an end of said housing.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Villarreal 4,089,117 May 16,
1978
Bock 4,751,950 June
21, 1988
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as failing to particularly point out and distinctly
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