Appeal No. 1997-2032
Application 08/229,278
14 remain for our consideration in this appeal.
Appellant's invention relates to a frame assembly for a
data storage and retrieval system. Claims 7 and 11 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims can be found in Appendix A of appellant’s brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness of the claimed subject matter are:
Scotti 3,120,413 Feb. 4,
1964
Otema 4,560,257 Dec. 24,
1985
Jones et al. (Jones) 5,040,161 Aug. 13,
1991
Hug et al. (Hug) 5,128,912 July 7,
1992
Baxter et al. (Baxter) 5,206,845 Apr. 27,
1993
Claims 7, 9 through 11, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Baxter in view of Hug,
Scotti and Otema.
Claims 8 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
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