Appeal No. 98-0609
Application 08/490,203
We reverse each of the examiner’s rejections of
appellant’s claims.
Claim 1, the sole independent claim in the application,
is drawn to a non-alpha-numeric coded item comprising, inter
alia, a
long flexible substantially circular cross-sectional shaped
member that is subject to tangling, and visible, non-alpha-
numeric, code extending along the length of the member for
uniquely identifying position at substantially every point
along the length of the member to facilitate untangling of the
member.
The examiner has concluded that the invention of claim 1
would have been obvious based upon the teaching of Finley. We
disagree for the reasons set forth below.
Finley discloses (column 8, lines 28 through 43) a
flexible hose with one portion that may be colored differently
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