Appeal No. 2000-0859 Page 2
Application No. 08/777,668
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a podium convertible
from a shipping case (claims 9 to 15), a shipping case
convertible to a podium (claims 16 to 18) and a method of
converting a shipping case to a podium (claims 19 to 21). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Callahan 5,562,229 Oct. 8,
1996
(filed May 24, 1995)
Rueter 5,680,944 Oct. 28,
1997
(filed Mar. 4, 1996)
In addition, the examiner also relied upon Official
Notice that it was known in the art to use a storage container
for storing a convertible pop-up display (Official Notice).
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