Appeal No. 97-4260
Application 08/445,660
4, 6 to 11, and 14 to 18, all of the claims remaining in the
application. However, in the examiner's answer, the examiner
did not repeat a provisional rejection of all of the claims on
the ground of double patenting, so that rejection is assumed
to be withdrawn. Ex parte Emm, 118 USPQ 180 (Bd. Apps. 1957).
Since claims 4 and 18 were not finally rejected on any other
ground, they are not involved in this appeal.
The subject matter on appeal concerns a pallet formed of
upper and lower thermoplastic sheets. The claims on appeal
are reproduced in the Appendix to appellants' brief, although
we note that claims 16 and 17 therein do not include all of
the additions made by the amendment filed on May 22, 1995
(Paper No. 14).
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Griffin 4,000,704 Jan. 04, 1977
Dresen et al. (Dresen) 4,428,306 Jan. 31, 1984
Shuert 4,879,956 Nov. 14, 1989
Cool 305,082 Mar. 01,
1989
(European Application)
The claims stand finally rejected as follows:
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