Appeal No. 97-4211
Application 98/614,844
only
other claim remaining in the application, has been indicated
to contain allowable subject matter, but is objected to as
being dependent from a rejected base claim. Claims 4 and 7
have been canceled.
Appellant’s invention relates to a storage receptacle
installation for a covered pick-up truck bed. Independent
claim 1 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:
Brady 4,752,095 Jun. 21,
1988
Peters et al. (Peters) 4,824,158 Apr. 25,
1989
MAN 2 EP 309,692 Apr. 05, 1989
2While the examiner and appellant have referred to this patent as “MAN”
it is clear from the enclosed translation that the inventors are actually
Schmidt et al.. However, for consistency, we will continue to refer to this
2
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