Appeal No. 95-0575
Application No. 07/921,645
suggested providing the adjustable basketball backboard system
shown in Exhibit A with a clamp of the type specifically defined
in claim 14.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 rejection of claim 14, or of claims 15 and 18 which depend
therefrom, as being unpatentable over Exhibit A in view of Nye,
and further in view of Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli.
Since Bearson, Barisa, Bottorff, Haston, Wilson, Sinner
and/or Grable, applied by the examiner to meet other features of
the claimed invention, do not overcome the foregoing deficiency
in Exhibit A, Nye, Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli with respect to
the subject matter recited in claim 14, we shall not sustain the
standing 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 16 and 17, which depend from
claim 14, as being unpatentable over Exhibit A in view of Nye,
Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli, and further in view of Bearson
and Barisa, or the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claim
19, which depends from claim 14, as being unpatentable over
Exhibit A in view of Nye, Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli, and
further in view of Bottorff, Haston, Wilson, Sinner and Grable.
Independent claim 24 recites an adjustable basketball
backboard support system comprising, inter alia, a backboard, a
support member, a parallelogram linkage system interconnecting
the backboard and the support member, adjustment means for
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