Appeal No. 98-1532
Application No. 08/438,533
The appellant’s invention is directed to a cover for a
lawn sprinkler head. The claims before us on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Block 2,751,250 Jun. 19,
1956
Leite et al. (Leite) 5,211,338 May
18, 1993
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Leite in view of Block.
Claims 3 and 4 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Leite in view of Block.
The rejections are explained in Paper No. 5, the final
rejection.
The arguments of the appellant in opposition to the
examiner’s positions are set forth in the Brief and the Reply
Brief.
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