Ex parte FUNK et al. - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1998-0357                                                        
          Application 08/258,429                                                      


               Claim 4 depends from claim 3 and further requires the                  
          wall structure to define an upper wall, a side wall, and first              
          and second transverse walls, wherein the upper, side and first              
          transverse walls define in part the first passage and the                   
          first transverse wall separates the first and second passages.              
          Since there is nothing in the applied references which would                
          have suggested a table assembly having this particular wall                 
          structure, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. §                    
          103(a) rejection of claim 4, or claims 6 and 7 which depend                 
          therefrom, as being unpatentable over Newhouse in view of                   
          Grund, taken with or without Arnold.                                        
               Claim 9 recites a table assembly comprising a cover                    
          movably mounted to the power supply system housing and                      
          releasably engaged with the lower surface of the table top.                 
          Since there is nothing in the applied references which would                
          have suggested a table assembly having such a cover, we shall               
          not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim              
          9, or of claims 10 and 11 which depend therefrom, as being                  
          unpatentable over Newhouse in view of Grund, taken with or                  
          without Arnold.                                                             


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