Appeal No. 97-1835
Application 08/178,068
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 and 3 through 14. These are all the claims that remain in
the application.
The claimed invention is directed to a shock absorb-
ing system for a housing such as a high fidelity speaker. The
shock absorbing system is characterized by an energy absorbing
material with special energy absorbing characteristics on the
corners of the speaker. The energy absorbing material has a
resistance to impact as shown in Figure 4 of the application.
The claims at issue on appeal are appended to appel-
lant's brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness are:
Mautner 2,674,433 Apr. 6,
1954
McClive 3,063,613 Nov. 13,
1962
Smith 3,922,408 Nov. 25,
1975
Meyer 5,218,176 June 8,
1993
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