Appeal No. 98-1979
Application 08/505,465
configuration, retention means for the shelves comprising a
knob, with the respective knobs located within a keyhole
opening, and wherein the shelves have the physical
characteristic of being capable of being bent inwardly such
that the shelves, during installation, can be bent inwardly to
locate their knobs within the keyhole opening. The patents to
Doherty, Glaberson, and Brewster, while fairly suggestive of
angled hoops, interlocking brace sections, and coated wire,
respectively, nevertheless do not overcome the basic
deficiencies of the Stroh and Zimmerman references, as
specified above. Since the evidence applied by the examiner
would not have
been suggestive of the claimed invention, the respective
rejections of appellants’ claims must be reversed.
In summary, this panel of the board has:
reversed the rejection of claims 17, 18, and 21 through
23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Stroh in
view of Zimmerman;
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