Appeal No. 1998-0030 Page 3
Application No. 08/151,960
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a land-based spill-
containment tank for receiving spilled liquids. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the
appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Frost 2,150,620 Mar. 14,
1939
Van Romer 5,316,175 May
31, 19942
Claims 1 to 3, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Van Romer in view of Frost.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
2The effective filing date of this patent is November 5,
1992. Accordingly, this patent is prior art under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e).
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