Appeal No. 95-0575
Application No. 07/921,645
Independent claim 14 recites an adjustable basketball
backboard support system comprising, inter alia, a parallelogram
linkage system for interconnecting a backboard and a support
member, and adjustment means for adjustably connecting one of the
links of the parallelogram linkage system to the support member.
The examiner concedes that the adjustable basketball backboard
system shown in Exhibit A, as proposed to be modified in view of
Nye, does not meet the limitation in claim 14 requiring the
adjustment means to include “a clamp mounted to said support
[member] and having a plurality of holes defining a plurality of
heights of said backboard for mounting to said support member”
(see page 5 in the final rejection). According to the examiner,
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
provide the system shown in Exhibit A with such a clamp in view
of Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli (see pages 5 and 6 in the final
rejection).
The examiner cites Lykens for its disclosure of an
adjustable basketball backboard support system mounted to a
support member by clamps, Friesen for its disclosure of a winch-
operated adjustable basketball backboard support system mounted
to a support member, and Cardarelli for its disclosure of an
adjustable electric lamp mounted to a support member by clamps.
There is nothing in these disparate teachings which would have
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