Appeal No. 97-2822
Application 08/455,900
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9 through 16. Claims 3, 4, 7,
8 and 17, the only other claims pending in the application, stand
withdrawn from further consideration based on an election of
species requirement also made in the final rejection (Paper
No. 23).
Appellant's invention relates to a floor drain
extension (e.g., claims 1, 10 and 11), a floor drain extension
com-bination (claim 13), and to a method of repositioning a drain
plate normally located atop a conventional fixed in place non-
adjustable floor drain by using the above-noted floor drain
extension (e.g., claims 5 and 9). Claims 1, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 13
are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims may be found in the Appendix to appellant's brief
and the Appendix to the examiner's answer.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Mayer 1,959,171 May 15, 1934
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