Appeal No. 1996-3947 Page 5
Application No. 08/151,741
both of said longitudinally extending sections” in a first,
closed, position and “exposing at least one of said longitudinally
extending sections” in a second, open, position while the second
cover covers “one of said longitudinally extending sections” in a
first, closed, position, and exposes “the one of said
longitudinally extending sections concealable by said second
cover” in a second, open, position.
Thus, the claims require a first outer cover for covering both
channels when closed and an inner cover, within the first cover,
for covering one of the channels when closed. Clearly, neither
Corsi nor Pollak provides for such a structure. Therefore, the
examiner relied on Whitney which is the only possible applied
reference which could provide for this teaching of separate
covers, one within the other.
Whitney does provide for dual channels for power and
communication cables and an outer cover 14 is provided for
covering both channels. The examiner identifies the conductive
shield (30 or 32) as the “second cover” which is exposed by
removing the outer, first, cover 14. While these conductive
shields of Whitney may be considered, broadly, covers, since they
“cover” the cables, they are not, in our view, a “second cover,”
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