Appeal No. 96-3002
Application 08/164,295
a second outer tank for removably receiving therein said
inner tank,
said container including port means for supplying said
product to said inner tank,
said container including means for discharging said product
from said inner tank,
said outer tank having an upper surface and a plurality of
projections extending upwardly from said upper surface,
said outer tank having a lower surface and a plurality of
supporting legs extending downwardly from said lower surface,
said upwardly extending projections on said outer tank being
substantially aligned with said downwardly extending supporting
legs on said outer tank.
The references applied against claims 1 and 15 are:
Ata et al. (Ata) 4,746,034 May 24, 1988
Coleman 4,960,227 Oct. 2, 1990
Claims 1 and 15 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Coleman in view of Ata.
The basis of the rejection is set forth by the examiner on
page 3 of the answer and need not be repeated here. Appellants’
position, in essence, is summarized in the paragraph bridging
pages 8 and 9 of their brief as follows:
These combined features of appealed Claims 1 and
15, when each claim is viewed as a whole, are not
taught or suggested by either the Coleman or the Ata et
al patents. The Coleman patent discloses only a
container structure including inner and outer tanks,
but does not suggest or recognize Applicant’s [sic]
claimed means for stacking multiple containers. The
Ata et al patent discloses means for stacking container
structures, but does not suggest a container including
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