Appeal No. 96-1918
Application 08/196,931
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nishiwaki, Clark, and Loffelholz.
Claims 4-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Nishiwaki, Clark, and King.
Claims 8 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Nishiwaki, Clark, Vanderheiden, and
Gart.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 6) and the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 13) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the examiner's position and to
the Brief (Paper No. 12) (pages referred to as "Br__") and
the Reply Brief (Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as
"RBr__") for a statement of appellant's position.
OPINION
Appellant argues claims 1-10 to rise or fall together
as a single group (Br3). Therefore, the claims stand or
fall together with independent claim 1.
We find that the structure of Nishiwaki and Clark meets
the structural limitations of claim 1. The claim limitation
of "a handle attached to the top of said base unit, said
handle having sufficient length and width to accommodate at
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