Appeal No. 97-0739
Application 08/163,265
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 20, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a hanger aid that is
used temporarily with a pole to suspend a lightweight object from
an elevated structure. See, for example, Figures 1 and 2 of the
application drawings. Claims 1, 12 and 16 are representative of
the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be
found in the Appendix to appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness of the claimed subject matter
are:
Sturges 1,852,629 Apr. 5, 1932
Richman et al. (Richman) 4,958,595 Sept. 25, 1990
Goldstein et al. (Goldstein) 5,060,995 Oct. 29, 1991
Smith 5,181,683 Jan. 26, 1993
Schmidt 100,196 Nov. 5, 1940
(Swedish Patent)2
2Our understanding of this foreign language document
is based upon a translation prepared for the U.S. Patent and
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