Appeal No. 97-4168
Application 08/348,890
Appellant's invention is a sheet metal container specific-
ally designed for the transport and storage of corrosive liquids.
Independent claim 7 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of that claim appears in the Appendix to
appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Mineo 4,316,318 Feb. 23, 1982
Hawkins et al. (Hawkins) 4,896,782 Jan. 30, 1990
Büdenbender (Büdenbender ‘576) 5,052,576 Oct. 01, 1991
Claims 7 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Büdenbender ‘576 in view of Hawkins.
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Büdenbender ‘576 in view of Hawkins as applied
to claim 7 above, and further in view of Mineo.2
2As noted on page 5 of the examiner’s answer, the rejection of claims 7
through 9 based on Mineo, Smith and Hawkins found on pages 4 and 5 of the
final rejection (Paper No. 11) has been withdrawn by the examiner, and is
therefore not before us.
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