Appeal No. 1998-0357
Application 08/258,429
The invention relates to “a modular training table system
having cable or wire management capabilities” (specification,
page 1). A copy of the claims on appeal appears in the
appendix to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 23).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Grund et al. (Grund) 5,220,871 Jun. 22,
1993
Newhouse et al. (Newhouse) 5,237,935 Aug. 24,
1993
Arnold et al. (Arnold) 2,130,877 Jun. 13,
1984
British Patent Document
Gutmann 3,506,381 Aug. 28,
1986
German Patent Document3
Claims 41 through 46 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Gutmann.
Claims 1, 3, 4, 6 through 17 and 47 through 55 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Newhouse in view of Grund, taken with or without Arnold.
3 An English language translation of this reference,
prepared on behalf of the Patent and Trademark Office, is
appended hereto.
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