Appeal No. 97-0256
Application 08/233,215
canceled. On page 3 of the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 20), the
examiner has indicated that dependent claim 3 is now objected to
and would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including
all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening
claims. This determination leaves for our review in this appeal
only the examiner’s rejections of claims 1, 2 and 5 through 7.
Appellant’s invention relates to a reversible writing pad
(14) seen in Figures 1-3 of the application drawings, wherein
said writing pad has a main substantially rectangular writing
surface or message recording area (24) and an extension (18)
extending from the main message recording area so as to form a
substantially “L” shaped combined writing surface and extension.
As shown in Figure 1, the extension (18) is generally provided
for placement between a person’s elbow and a support surface
(20), such as a table or desk top surface, to allow the writing
pad to be held in place beneath said elbow while the person is
writing on the message recording area (24) with the other hand.
A substantially correct copy of claims 1 through 3 and 5 through
7 may be found in the Appendix to appellant’s brief. Minor
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