Appeal No. 99-1479
Application 08/609,991
the two running flanges of the associated supporting runner
(14)" is not in accordance with the disclosure of Grass AG,
since element 3 of Grass AG is the supporting runner, not a
flange of the pull-out runner.
Accordingly, since Grass AG does not disclose every
limitation of claim 14, it does not anticipate either claim 14
or the claims dependent thereon, claims 15, 16, 22 and 23.
Turning to independent claim 30, we note that Grass
AG shows a plate 22 for mounting the end of supporting runner
3 to
cabinet 1, but item 22, while it appears from Fig. 9 to have
upper and lower tabs, is not described in sufficient detail to
determine whether it would meet all the limitations of claim
30. The examiner nevertheless apparently is of the opinion
that the
retaining plate recited in claim 30 is readable on some other
apparatus disclosed in Grass AG, since he states on page 5 of
the answer that "[w]ith claim 30, the upper retaining tab and
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