Appeal No. 97-0750 Application 08/329,219 This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's refusal to allow claims 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 as amended in a paper filed concurrently with appellant's appeal brief on July 17, 1996. Claims 3, 4 and 5, the only other claims pending in this2 application, have been objected to by the examiner, and are said to be allowable if rewritten in independent form to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Appellant's invention relates to a self-adjusting lift table for supporting a number of load items at a variable height. On pages 1 and 2 of the specification, appellant indicates that the present invention is an improvement over the lift table seen in U.S. Patent No. 5,299,906 and, in particular, provides a lift table of the type described therein in which the load deflection characteristic is improved, and is easily matched to various load 2Although it is clear from page 2 of the examiner's answer that the amendment filed with the appeal brief on July 17, 1996 has been considered and entered by the examiner, we note that this amendment has not been entered in the "Contents" section of the file wrapper, has not been assigned a paper number, or otherwise clerically entered. These oversights should be corrected in any further prosecution of the application before the examiner. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007