Appeal No. 96-4137
Application 08/260,674
of Turner of a footrest. Therefore, we will also sustain this
rejection as it relates to claim 10.
We will also sustain this rejection as it relates to
claim 15 because we find unpersuasive appellant’s argument
that the back 14 and seat 13 of Greenbaum are supported by
side arms 15 rather than being supported by the second chair
legs as recited in claim 15 because Turner discloses chair
legs 14 which support the backrest and the seat (See Figure
1).
The appellant also argues that the table and chair
legs 11 and 16 in Greenbaum are not attachable to each other
but rather stacked together and therefore do not meet the
limitations recited in claim 16 that the first and second pair
of chair legs be selectively attachable to first and second
pair of chair leg extensions. We do not find this argument
persuasive because we find the recitation in claim 16 of
selectively attachable first and second chair leg extensions
to be broad enough to include chair legs and chair leg
extensions which are stacked on each other. We note that
Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary (Riverside
Publishing Company 1984) defines the word “attach” as to
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