Appeal No. 1998-3420
Application 08/597,033
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1, 4, 9, 10, 14 through 19, 22, 23
and 61. Claims 2, 3 and 11 through 13 have been indicated by
the examiner to contain allowable subject matter, but stand
objected to until such time that they are rewritten in inde-
pendent form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims. Claims 5 through 8, 20, 21
and 24 through 60, the only other claims remaining in the
application, have been withdrawn from further consideration
under 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
Appellants’ invention relates to a disc package
apparatus in the form of a composite plastic/cardboard ar-
rangement for storing and retaining at least one compact disc
therein. Independent claims 1, 9 and 61 address the aspects
of the invention seen in Figures 18-21 of the application
drawings, wherein a cover (1) is attached to the plastic tray
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