Appeal No. 1998-0236
Application No. 08/472,536
furniture system (claims 9 and 10), a bed construction (claims
17-26, 28 and 29) and a method of arranging a furniture system
(claims 35-38). The furniture system is disclosed as having a
bed section (22) and a storage section (39a, 39b) attached to
corner post assemblies. Each post assembly comprises upper
and lower posts (30, 34) interconnected by a connector (38).
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellant’s brief.
The following references are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness in support of his
rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
Hannum 2,057,334 Oct. 13, 1936
Vivoli 3,972,638 Aug. 3, 1976
Bridge 4,027,453 Jun. 7, 1977
Tasaka 4,253,204 Mar. 3, 1981
Bianco 4,312,086 Jan. 26, 1982
Kranjec 4,607,576 Aug. 26, 1986
Nelson et al. (Nelson) 4,617,689 Oct. 21, 1986
Pottschmidt 4,745,644 May 24, 1988
Novitski 4,826,115 May 2, 1989
Gieling et al. (Gieling) 5,144,780 Sep. 8, 1992
Perkins 5,233,707 Aug. 10, 1993
Jory (UK) 153,699 Nov. 18, 1920
The appealed claims stand rejected under § 103 as
follows:
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