Appeal No. 96-1389
Application No. 07/925,615
withdrawn from further consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b)
as not being readable on the elected invention. An amendment
filed subsequent to the final rejection on March 21, 1994
(Paper No. 9) has been entered. See the advisory letter
mailed April 11, 1994 (Paper No. 11).
Appellant’s invention pertains to a compost pile building
apparatus. Details of the invention can be readily understood
from a reading of the appealed claims, a copy of which is
found in an appendix to appellant’s brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of the rejections are:
Piez et al. (Piez) 696,266 Mar. 25, 1902
Plugge et al. (Plugge) 3,145,855 Aug. 25,
1964
Pinckard 4,164,405 Aug. 14,
1979
Cottrell et al. (Cottrell) 4,253,405 Mar. 3,
1981
Shelef 4,288,241 Sep. 8,
1981
Malmström et al (Malmström) 4,445,814 May 1,
1984
The following rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are before
us for review:2
2The answer also included a new rejection of the appealed
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based upon a public use and/or
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