Appeal No. 95-0575
Application No. 07/921,645
adjustably connecting one of the links of the parallelogram
linkage system to the support member, and a mounting means
including a clamp similar to the one recited in claim 14. As was
the case with the rejection of claim 14, the examiner has
concluded that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to provide the adjustable basketball backboard
system shown in Exhibit A with such clamp in view of Lykens,
Friesen and Cardarelli. Here again, however, there is nothing in
the disparate teachings of these three references which would
have suggested the proposed modification.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 rejection of claim 24 as being unpatentable over Exhibit A
in view of Lykens, Friesen and Cardarelli.
The following rejection is entered pursuant to 37 CFR
§ 1.196(b).
Claims 1 through 10, 13 through 20 and 22 through 24 are
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
the appellant regards as the invention.
The second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 requires claims to
set out and circumscribe a particular area with a reasonable
degree of precision and particularity. In re Johnson, 558 F.2d
1008, 1015, 194 USPQ 187, 193 (CCPA 1977). The purpose of this
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