Appeal No. 98-1459 Page 2
Application No. 08/309,756
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a shelf divider. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the
appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Gold 4,595,105 June
17, 1986
Breslow 4,712,694 Dec. 15,
1987
Claims 1 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Breslow in view of Gold.
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. 12, mailed July 9, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the appellants'
brief (Paper No. 11, filed April 4, 1997) and reply brief
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