Appeal No. 1997-1812
Application 08/055,382
Claim 34, the only other claim remaining in the application,
has been indicated by the examiner as being allowable if
rewritten in independent form to include all the limitations
of the base claim from which it depends and any intervening
claim. Claim 2 has been canceled.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a turntable for
installation into a building. The turntable comprises a
plurality of modular pie-shaped panel units cooperatively
assembled to define a rotatable floor surface of circular
shape. Independent claim 1, a copy of which is found in an
appendix to appellant’s brief, is illustrative of the appealed
subject matter.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 are:
Coffey 1,772,858 Aug. 12, 1930
Chatard 3,941,146 Mar. 2, 1976
Funke 4,191,437 Mar. 4, 1980
Wertz 5,245,929 Sep. 21, 1993
mailed July 3, 1996 (Paper No. 20).
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