Appeal No. 98-1036
Application 08/540,193
be curved thereunder, thereby securing said carpet strip
between said form body and said floor; and
d) a means for securing said form body to said wall.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Mapes 2,506,030 May 2, 1950
Habrant 4,058,946 Nov. 22, 1977
Schafer et al. (Schafer) 4,730,432 Mar. 15,
1988
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
a) claims 4 through 7 and 11 through 14 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph;
b) claims 1, 21, 22, 25 and 26 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Mapes;
c) claims 23 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Mapes;
d) claims 8 and 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Schafer;
e) claims 2 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Mapes;
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