Appeal No. 96-0922
Application 08/251,306
The rejection of claim 18
We reverse the examiner’s rejection of claim 18
under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b).
Claim 18, drawn to a watercraft, requires, inter
alia, a hull defining a rider’s area, the rider’s area being
comprised of “a floor having a transversely extending recess,”
and boarding means for facilitating the entry of a rider into
the rider’s area from outside of the hull, the boarding means
being configured to nest at least in part in the recess when
in a storage position within the rider’s area. Consistent
with the underlying specifi- cation (pages 6 and 16), we
understand the claimed recitation of a floor having a trans-
versely extending recess to denote, inter
alia, that the floor is transversely recessed to form the
transversely extending recess.
The patent to Crone is concerned with boat ladders
for use on pontoon boats, party barges, or the like. The
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