Appeal No. 97-4240
Application 08/294,074
(2) Claim 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over either Polhamus or Quinlan in view of Kurrasch;
(3) Claims 1 and 28 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over either Polhamus or Quinlan in view of either
Stephens or Weissenbach; and
(4) Claims 4-12, 22-26 and 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over either Polhamus or Quinlan in view of Kurrasch
and either Stephens or Weissenbach.
Each of the above noted rejections is bottomed on the
examiner’s view that both Polhamus and Quinlan teach a non-
structural panel having connectors that (1) are slidably received
in support channels in the posts and (2) allow said panel to be
“laterally movable to permit said panel to be manually mounted in
and removed from the fixed panel support channels” of at least 2
two posts without the use of tools as expressly required by
2By reciting that the connectors are “laterally movable,”
it is readily apparent from a perusal of page 25 of the
specification that the appellants are referring to the movement
of the connectors 204 along the horizontal extent of a panel due
to strips 228 being compressed and expanded as the panel is
installed in the channels of two spaced-apart, vertically-
oriented posts.
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