Appeal No. 98-3288
Application 08/630,304
and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determination which follows.
We reverse the examiner’s rejection of appellants’ claim
1. It follows that we likewise reverse the rejection of claim
11 since, as previously indicated, it stands or falls with
claim 1.
The unitized monocoque enclosure of claim 1 requires,
inter alia, “side, top and bottom panel sections being
themselves only
of corrugated metal and forming a continuous corrugated
structure.”
We turn now to the evidence of obviousness.
The patent to Salmon addresses a telephone equipment rack
selectively adjustable to widths of 19 or 23 inches. As
depicted in Figure 2, for example, the rack comprises integral
U-shaped frame members 22 and 24 joined by internally nested
upper and lower channel connectors 26 and 28. Each of the
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