Appeal No. 2001-0734
Application 09/071,264
through 20, the only other claims remaining in the application,
stand allowed. Claims 13, 14 and 21 through 30 have been
canceled.
Appellants’ invention is directed to a partition system for
subdividing a building space. More specifically, the claims on
appeal appear to be directed to the embodiment of the invention
seen in Figures 77 through 83 of the application drawings wherein
the partition system includes a floor-engaging channel (380).
Independent claims 31 and 44 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in
Appendix A to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 19, filed June 5,
2000).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Pollock ‘386 3,958,386 May 25, 1976
Amstutz 4,991,368 Feb. 12, 1991
Claims 31 through 42 and 44 through 51 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Pollock ‘386.
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