Appeal No. 97-0374
Application 08/310,493
recesses/sockets (50) and the spacer columns or posts (25-27)
of Murphy to be of a triangular configuration, without any
express reason or motivation in the cited Murphy reference for
such a modification. In appellant’s view, the examiner has
not
provided the factual predicate necessary to establish a prima
facie case of obviousness. We do not agree.
In considering the limitation regarding the triangular
shape of the recesses in the lower end of the pillars and of
the posts in appellant’s claim 6, the examiner has noted that
appellant’s specification merely describes these elements of
the invention as “triangular” without any reason given for
this particular shape or any indication that such a shape
solves a particular problem associated with the display rack
therein. Given the lack in appellant’s own disclosure of any
criticality concerning this specific shape of the recesses and
the posts, the examiner has concluded that making the shape of
the recess in the lower end of the pillars and of the posts in
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