Appeal No. 97-4260
Application 08/445,660
vis the Dresen patent, it appears that, with the possible
exception of the last paragraph, Dresen discloses all the
structure recited. The last paragraph of the claim reads:
"said bosses being arranged substantially non-symetrically
about one of said axes". The "said axes" are defined in the
claim as:
a first axis in the plane of said deck member
extending through the center of said deck member
running between two non-adjacent sides of said deck
member;
a second axis extending through the center of
said deck member in the plane of the deck member
perpendicular to said first axis.
We consider that Dresen meets the limitation in the last
paragraph of the claim, since the axes are broadly defined.
Looking at Fig. 2 of Dresen, for example, the lead line from
reference numeral 32, if extended across the pallet 10, would
constitute a "first axis" extending through the center of deck
member 13 and running between two non-adjacent sides of the
deck
member, as claimed, and a second axis would extend through the
center of the deck member perpendicular to the first axis.
Since the bosses 22 of Dresen would not be symmetrical about
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