Appeal No. 98-1031
Application 08/674,667
and 20 , the only other claims pending in the application,2
have been objected to as depending from a rejected base claim,
but indicated as being allowable if rewritten in independent
form to include all the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claims.
The Invention
Appellant’s invention pertains to a pallet having upper
and lower members which are configured to be easily and
quickly connected together with a minimum of operator error
(specification, page 2). To this end, the upper and lower
members are provided with interlocking formations 36, 50 (see
fig. 2) that provide a “snap” engagement when the members are
brought together. Independent claim 1, a copy of which is
found in the appendix to appellant’s brief, is illustrative of
the claimed subject matter.
The Applied Prior Art References
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
2Claim 20 was not separately treated in the final
rejection, but the examiner on page 5 of the answer expressly
included it among the claims objected to and allowable if
rewritten in independent form.
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