Appeal No. 1998-3420
Application 08/597,033
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the re-
spective positions articulated by appellants and the examiner.
As a consequence of our review, we have made the determina-
tions which follow.
Looking first at the examiner's rejection of claims
1, 4, 9 and 61 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) based on O’Brien, we
note that the examiner has taken the position that O’Brien
discloses a storage package (10) having a “tray” defined by
the combination of a base member (30) and holder (e.g., 40a or
100) which is attached to the base member (see Figs. 2-5, 11
and 12). The examiner notes that the holder portion (40a,
100) of the tray has a base with a rosette for engaging the
central hole of a disc and that the base member portion (30)
of the integrated tray has an outwardly opening gap/receiver
(78) with a ledge (79). The package of O’Brien is also indi-
cated to have a paper board
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