Appeal No. 1999-2094 Page 3
Application No. 08/517,198
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an apparatus for
carrying a bicycle on a vehicle roof (specification, p. 1).
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claims 14, 21 and 22 (the independent
claims on appeal), which appear in the appendix to the
appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Will 2,521,815 Sep.
12, 1950
Vanzant 4,717,054 Jan. 5,
1988
Mottino 5,284,282 Feb. 8,
1994
(filed July 21, 1992)
Claims 14 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Mottino in view of Vanzant and
Will.
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