Appeal No. 2003-0348
Application 09/567,145
double patenting has been withdrawn by the examiner [answer, page
6]. Since this was the only rejection against claims 30-36,
these claims have now been indicated to contain allowable subject
matter. Therefore, this appeal is now directed to the rejection
of claims 17-20, 25-29 and 37.
The disclosed invention pertains to an acoustic guitar.
Representative claim 17 is reproduced as follows:
17. In an acoustic guitar the guitar having a sound box
having a sound board, a neck, a plurality of strings positioned
above the sound board, the improvement comprising the sound board
comprising no more that [sic] two layers of wood bonded together,
wherein the grain direction of the two layers of wood are in
substantially parallel planes, running in substantially
perpendicular directions.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Oehrlein 168,665 Oct. 11, 1875
Besnainou et al. (Besnainou) 5,171,926 Dec. 15, 1992
Sloane, Steel-String Guitar Construction, 1975 by E. P. Dutton
& Co., Inc., page 19.
Claims 17-20, 25-29 and 37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a). As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers
Oehrlein in view of Besnainou and Sloane.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
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