Appeal No. 98-1040
Application 08/388,573
the four panels in alternate overlapping edge configuration.
The examiner's reliance on Green to overcome these
deficiencies in Solari is not well founded.
Green pertains to furniture which can be easily assembled
without the use of metal fasteners. To this end, each piece
of furniture consists of a number of components joined by
mortises and tenons. Figures 7 through 15 depict a drawer
having panels connected by such structure.
According to the examiner, "[i]t would have been obvious
and well within the level of ordinary skill in the art to
modify the structure of Solari to include alternate
overlapping joints, as known in the art and further shown in
[Figure 7 of] Green, used for the same intended purpose,
thereby providing structure as claimed" (answer, page 5).
Green, however, does not teach first and second
releasable fasteners which are disposed as required by claim 1
to place four panels in alternate overlapping edge
configuration. Moreover, there is nothing in the combined
teachings of Solari and Green which would have furnished the
artisan with any motivation to somehow modify the articulated
panel joints disclosed by Solari with the fixed panel joints
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