Appeal No. 1998-1188
Application No. 08/628,556
This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of
claims 1 through 11 and 13 through 21. Claims 12, 22 and 23,1
the only other claims remaining in the application, have been
indicated as allowable, subject to being rewritten in
independent form.
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a support
structure and method for anchoring a covering member, such as
an umbrella or the like (specification, page 4). A copy of
the appealed claims appears in an appendix to the main brief
(Paper No. 12).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Hall et al. 5,293,889 Mar. 15, 1994
(Hall)
Rodriguez et al. 5,535,978 Jul. 16, 1996
(Rodriguez)
Edwards 2,020,967 Nov. 28, 1979
Claims 1 and 7 were amended subsequent to the final rejection. See1
Paper No. 9.
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