Appeal No. 1998-1962 Page 3
Application No. 08/213,933
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a security anchor.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claims 1, 7 and 13, which appear in the
appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Perry 4,979,382 Dec. 25,
1990
Claims 1 through 10 and 12 through 22 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Perry.2
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
2We note that the examiner set forth two rejections on
pages 3-4 of the examiner's answer (Paper No. 15, mailed
September 19, 1997). However, in the examiner's response to
argument section of the answer (pp. 4-5) the examiner states
that the first rejection "is moot" and that Perry is "being
used singularly." Accordingly, we will treat the rejection of
the claims under appeal as being based on 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Perry alone.
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