Appeal No. 1998-0236
Application No. 08/472,536
Nielson, 816 F.2d at 1572, 2 USPQ2d at 1528 and In re Burckel,
592 F.2d at 1178-79, 201 USPQ at 70.
With regard to claim 35, Perkins suggests the concept of
providing upper and lower support posts detachably
interconnected by connectors for removably mounting an upper
furniture section on a lower furniture section for the reasons
discussed supra with respect to claim 30. In fact, based on
our analysis of Perkins, this reference teaches all of the
claimed steps in claim 35, namely the step of providing the
bed section (in the form of the upper bunk), the step of
providing the furniture-mounting section (in the form of lower
support posts 14) together with a rail member (in the form of
one of the lower rails 18) and the plurality of furniture
components (in the form of the plural component lower bunk
assembly), the step of selectively assembling the bed section
and the furniture-mounting section together by means of the
connectors 34 as shown in Figure 1 of the Perkins patent, and
the step of moving the bed section apart from the furniture-
mounting section by removing the connectors as shown in Figure
2 of the Perkins patent.
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