Appeal No. 96-3263
Application No. 08/363,594
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a cargo securement
assembly. Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of claim 1, as it appears in the appellant's
brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Watts 3,252,681 May 24, 1966
Berns 3,685,778 Aug. 22, 1972
Ehrlich 4,810,027 March 7, 1989
ANCRA International Designer and Manufacturer of Cargo Restraint
Systems (ANCRA); Catalog No. 206; pp. 16-23; October 1987
Claims 1 through 4 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over ANCRA Part No. 43451-11 and
Series F track in view of Berns.
Claim 5 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over ANCRA Part No. 43451-11 and Series F track in
view of Berns as applied to claims 1 through 4 and 6 above, and
further in view of Watts.
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