Appeal No. 97-1476 Page 10
Application No. 08/458,689
the resulting apparatus would not render the hanging plant
container apparatus of the appealed claims unpatentable under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
We have also reviewed the Lyon, Green and O'Sullivan
references additionally applied in the rejection of some of
the appealed claims but find nothing therein which makes up
for the deficiencies of the applied prior art discussed above.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 1 through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
is reversed.
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