Appeal No. 1998-3301 Page 17
Application No. 08/784,361
As set forth above, Crowder, Wright and Harmony do not
disclose a driveway, much less a driveway positioned in close
proximity to the front panel of a plurality of mail boxes so
that a driver of vehicle can reach out from the vehicle and
open and close the mail box front door without having to leave
the vehicle. The examiner has not provided any evidence in
the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 that would have suggested
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention
was made to have modified Crowder, Wright or Harmony to have
provided a driveway positioned in close proximity to the front
panel of their plurality of mail boxes so that a driver of a
vehicle can reach out from the vehicle and open and close the
mail box front door without having to leave the vehicle.
Since all the claimed limitations of claims 8 through 10,
17 through 19 and 26 through 30 are not suggested by the
applied prior art, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 8 through 10, 17 through 19 and 26 through 30 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
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