Appeal No. 1999-2094 Page 14
Application No. 08/517,198
convenient loading and unloading and thus fall at least into
the latter category of the Wood test, and logically would have
commended itself to an artisan's attention in considering the
appellant's problem. Thus, we conclude that both Vanzant and
Will are analogous art.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.
Claims 15-20
The decision of the examiner to reject claims 15 through
20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is also affirmed since the appellant
has not challenged this rejection with any reasonable
specificity, thereby allowing dependent claims 15 through 20
to fall with independent claim 14 (see In re Nielson, 816 F.2d
1567, 1572, 2 USPQ2d 1525, 1528 (Fed. Cir. 1987).
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