Appeal No. 2000-1445
Application No. 09/149,254
It follows that claim 1, therefore, requires long
narrow pieces of hook and pile fabric material (strips), at
least one “vertically oriented” and at least one “horizontally
disposed,” with the vertically oriented strip angularly
disposed relative to the horizontally disposed strip, i.e.,
the length of one strip extends vertically (vertically
oriented) and the length of another strip extends horizontally
(horizontally disposed).
Appellant does not dispute the examiner’s
combination of the Phinn, Jr. and Stemke references, but
argues (brief, pages 4 and 5), in effect, that unlike the
arrangement of angularly oriented strips in the present
invention that provide bi-directional adjustment, conventional
linearly aligned strips fasten by overlapping in a single
direction.
Our review of the Phinn, Jr. document reveals to us
that it specifically addresses curtain and wall mounted hook
and loop pads 30 and 36 (Figs. 1 and 3) or their equivalent
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