Appeal No. 2000-0514
Application No. 09/063,446
extending outwardly parallel to one another from the open
front face," with the shelving interacting with the hooks to
connect the shelving to the support posts. The corresponding
structures in the Nicely assembly, tapered flanges 32, do not
constitute hooks.
Champagne discloses a shelving system composed of corner
posts 3, a shelving unit 5, and a support collar 8 detachably
connected to each post for retaining the shelving unit. Each
collar includes two parallel, upwardly extending hooks in the
form of side arms 15 having notches 17 therein for interacting
with inserts 25 on the shelving unit.
In rejecting claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), the
examiner has concluded that
[i]t would have been obvious and well within the
level of ordinary skill in the art to modify the
structure of Nicely (‘626) to include the
interconnecting structure of Champagne since such
structures are alternative, conventional sleeve and
interconnecting structure, used in the same intended
purpose of providing a quick disconnect, thereby
providing structure as claimed [answer, page 4].
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