Appeal No. 1999-0278 Page 3
Application No. 08/604,026
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a speaker support
bar for use above vehicle headliner. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 3
and 5, which appear in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Okamoto et al. (Okamoto) 4,056,165 Nov.
1, 1977
Dowd et al. (Dowd) 4,913,484 Apr. 3,
1990
Claims 3, 5, 7 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Dowd in view of Okamoto for the
reasons set forth in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the final rejection
(Paper No. 8, mailed October 15, 1997).
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection and the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed June 8, 1998) for the
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