Appeal No. 98-2111
Application 08/596,564
George W. Young, and to the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we have made the determination that we will not
sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 20 through 30 on
appeal under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103. Our reasons follow.
Independent claims 20 and 28 on appeal each require that
the tray/food holding section of the arrangement therein
include a hub (16) joined to the food holding section in
substantially fixed relationship, with said hub comprising a
single cylindrical wall having a cylindrical inner surface
(28) disposed to engage an upper portion of the outer surface
of the cylindrical container “in snug-fitting relationship,”
and having said inner surface “extending vertically above said
food holding section” when said section is in a specified food
holding orientation.
Independent claim 30 is similar to claims 20 and 28,
except that it requires only that the hub (16) be provided
with a cylindrical inner surface “formed in complementary
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