Appeal No. 1998-3420
Application 08/597,033
the preferred embodiment (col. 9, lines 7-17) is described as
having a glueless connection to the plastic base (30) and as
being “readily detachable” from
the base. Thus, given the glueless connection, we must
conclude
that the cover (20), as seen in Figure 8 of the patent, is
movable in a counter-clockwise direction about the gap (78) to
a horizontal position wherein the cover would extend to the
right of the base and would, to the same extent as appellants’
cover, thereby allow complete accessibility to all sides of
the paper board cover and provide a package which lies flat
when the cover is partially or fully open. As noted by the
examiner (answer, pages 7-8), appellants’ arguments on page 7
of the brief are narrower than the claim recitations, since
the claims on appeal do not in any way preclude folding of the
cover to obtain visual access thereto or inversion of the tray
to obtain visual access to the cover.
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