Appeal No. 96-3032
Application No. 08/321,392
Joseph L. Tate and Helen B. Tate (the appellants) appeal
from the final rejection of claims 2-4, 7, 8 , 10-12, 15, 18, 2
19 and 22. Claims 6, 14 and 21, the only other claims present
in the application, stand allowed.
We AFFIRM.
The appellants’ invention pertains to a mounting corner
usable with other like mounting corners for the purpose of
mounting photographs or posters on a vertical surface such as
a wall. Independent claim 2 is further illustrative of the
appealed subject matter and a copy thereof may be found in the
appendix to the brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Murray 1,194,217 Aug. 8, 1916
Tannenbaum 4,837,953 Jun. 13, 1989
Taylor 4,838,793 Jun. 13, 1989
2Page 3 of the brief states that claim 8 has been
canceled; however, as the examiner has noted on page 3 of the
answer, no cancellation of this claim has in fact been made.
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