Appeal No. 2005-0058 Page 2
Application No. 09/821,802
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a parquet board with a tongue and groove
edge profile comprising, inter alia, an upwardly projecting locking lip provided on the top
edge of the tongue and a corresponding locking recess in a lower portion of the top
groove cheek defining the top of the groove. A copy of the claims under appeal is set
forth in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references of record in rejecting
the appealed claims:
Tsai 5,274,979 Jan. 4, 1994
Moriau et al. (Moriau) 6,006,486 Dec. 28, 1999
Roy et al. (Roy) 6,216,409 Apr. 17, 2001
(filed Jan. 25, 1999)
The following rejections are before us for review.1
Claims 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Moriau.
Claim 12 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Moriau in view of Roy.
Claims 4, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Tsai in view of Moriau.
1 The examiner has withdrawn the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph (answer,
page 7).
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