Appeal No. 97-0991
Application 08/436,660
appears to have a flat outer surface which is adapted to
frictionally engage a flat internal surface of the overhanging
lip 13.
Given the foregoing deficiencies of the Fine reference,
we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection
of independent claims 10 and 21, or of claim 29 which depends
from claim 10, as being anticipated by Fine.
Nor shall we sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejections of dependent claims 11 through 20 and 22 through
28. In short, the secondary references applied by the
examiner in support of these rejections fail to cure all of
the above noted shortcomings of Fine with respect to the
subject matter recited in parent claims 10 and 21.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
CHARLES E. FRANKFORT )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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