Appeal No. 98-1428
Application No. 08/590,388
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 13, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellant’s invention relates to a flexible liner for
insertion into a waste receptacle and to a method of
installing such a flexible liner in a waste receptacle.
Independent claims 1, 10 and 12 are representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be
found in Appendix A of appellant’s brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Meroney 3,148,799 Sep. 15,
1964
Cote 4,027,774 Jun.
7, 1977
Metcalf 5,028,022 Jul. 2,
1991
An additional prior art reference of record in the
present application relied upon by this panel of the Board in
a new ground of rejection entered pursuant to 37 CFR §
1.196(b) is:
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