Appeal No. 97-2725
Application 08/138,456
still pending in the application have been withdrawn from
consideration as not being directed to the elected invention.
The invention disclosed in appellant’s application
relates to an indicator plate structure 10 which is adopted to
be placed in the ground adjacent to the inlet I of a petroleum
storage tank T. The indicator plate structure comprises a
molded plate member 20 (defined as a molded primary mass in
the appealed claims) and a plurality of exposed indicator
elements 30 embedded in the plate member and arranged in a
coded pattern for identifying the particular petroleum product
to be stored in the associated tank. In appealed claim 1, the
indicator structure is defined as a “storage tank label,” and
in claim 22, the only other independent claim on appeal, the
indicator structure is defined as a “content identifier.”
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellant’s brief.2
Contrary to the examiner’s statement on page 3 of the answer, the copy2
of claim 1 in the appendix to appellant’s brief is incorrect in that it
recites that the inlet cover “obtrudes” the conduit, rather than
reciting that the cover obturates the conduit.
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