Appeal No. 97-1948
Application 08/569,554
Appellants' invention relates to an intermodal shipping
container of the type widely used in the freight hauling industry
where different modes of transport (e.g., sea, rail and roadway)
are used to ship the containers from one point to another. As
explained on pages 2 through 5 of the specification, the
intermodal shipping container that is the subject of the present
invention has a non-standard arrangement of lock-receiving
fittings or connectors and stacking points which affords the
container the capacity to be stacked in a variety of double-stack
arrangements with other containers of different lengths. Claims
1, 9, 20, 26 and 31 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:
Yurgevich 4,844,672 Jul. 04, 1989
Grogan 5,072,845 Dec. 17, 1991
Claims 1, 3 through 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24 and 26 through 32
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Yurgevich in view of Grogan.
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