Appeal No. 97-4244
Application 08/347,141
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 6,
8 and 10 to 14. Claims 7, 9 and 15 to 28, the other claims
remaining in the application, stand withdrawn from consideration
under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being directed to nonelected species.
The subject matter in issue concerns a magnetic lock
device used to fasten together two objects, such as the flap and
body of a handbag. The appealed claims are reproduced in the
Appendix to appellant’s brief.
The reference applied in the final rejection is:
Humiston 3,324,521 June 13, 1967
Claims 6, 8 and 10 to 14 stand finally rejected as
anticipated by Humiston, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
Claim 6
Appellant asserts that claim 6, the only independent
claim on appeal, is not anticipated by Humiston, because Humiston
does not disclose (1) “a curled edge . . . positioned radially
laterally at said peripheral marginal edge [of the ferromagnetic
plate],” as recited in lines 9 to 11 of the claim, and (2) a
“flat disk plate having a thickness to be accommodated within the
2
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