Appeal No. 98-1449 Page 2
Application No. 08/297,122
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a ceiling system.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 6, which appears in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Shaub 4,769,965 Sept. 13,
1988
Claims 6 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Shaub.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 13, mailed June 17, 1997) and the supplemental examiner's
answer (Paper No. 15, mailed September 17, 1997) for the
examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and
to the appellants' brief (Paper No. 12, filed March 24, 1997)
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