Appeal No. 98-1447
Application 08/385,356
of a new ground of rejection in the main answer, amendments
were filed and entered such that the status of the claims is
as follows.
Claims 32 and 33 stand allowed, and the examiner has indicated
that claims 9 through 16 and 24 through 31 are objected to but
would be allowable in independent form. Thus, we have before
us
for review on appeal a rejection of claims 1 through 8 and 17
through 23.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a base bearing assembly
for bearing an upright ornamental object. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim
1, a copy of which appears in APPENDIX B of the reply brief
(Paper No. 15).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Blizard 2,695,199 Nov. 23, 1954
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