Appeal No. 96-0005 Application 07/722,599 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 3, 15, 16, 19, 20, 36, 37, 62 and 63. Claims 4-14, 17, 18, 21-29,2 32, 35 and 38-40 stand allowed. Claims 41-51, 64 and 65 have been indicated by the examiner to be allowable subject to the requirement that they be rewritten to include all the subject matter of the claims from which they depend. As summarized on page 2 of the brief, the appellants’ invention is directed toward a type of watercraft which may be used in conjunction with a small conventional jet propelled type of watercraft so as to accommodate a larger number of passengers than that afforded by the smaller watercraft. However, the larger watercraft, sometimes referred to as the mother ship, has no propulsion unit of its own. In accordance with an important feature of the invention, the passenger compartment of the mother ship is laid out so that the controls of the smaller watercraft, when contained in a berthing area of the mother ship, can be reached by a seated passenger so that the combined watercraft may be propelled by the propulsion device of the smaller watercraft while being controlled from the larger watercraft. Independent claim 1 is further illustrative of the appealed subject matter and reads as follows: 1. A watercraft comprised of a main hull devoid of any propulsion device or control therefor and defining a berthing area opening through a part of said main hull for receiving a smaller watercraft having a propulsion device and controls therefore, a passenger compartment defined by said main hull and 2Claim 62 has been amended by an amendment filed subsequent to final rejection on December 12, 1994 (Paper No. 29). -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007