Appeal No. 2002-1408
Application No. 09/228,076
BACKGROUND
The appellant’s invention relates to a system for suspending a net such as a
volleyball net over a floor. The structure of the invention is readily apparent from claim
1, the sole independent claim, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Steele 1,778,173 Oct. 14, 1930
Albach 1,919,494 Jul. 25, 1933
Townsend 2,865,634 Dec. 23, 1958
Barnes 3,065,964 Nov. 27, 1962
Allbright 5,215,310 Jun. 1, 1993
USSR Inventor’s Certificate1 SU 1535549 A1 Jan. 15, 1990
(Dyagesis)
QUIK SET Retractable Volleyball System Advertisement Jan. 1, 19992
(QUIK SET)
Claims 1-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
QUIK SET in view of Albach and Allbright.
Claims 1-12 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Dyagesis in view of QUIK SET, Townsend and Allbright.3
1Our understanding of this foreign language document was acquired by means of a PTO
translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
2The appellant has not disputed the examiner’s position that this is a proper reference under
35 U.S.C. § 102.
3A rejection of claims 1-12 on the basis of Dyagesis in view of QUIKSET, Albach and Allbright
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