Appeal No. 1998-1240
Application 08/198,443
specifically, to a removable basketball backboard cover”
(specification, page 1). A copy of the appealed claims
appears in Appendix A of the appellant’s main brief (Paper No.
10).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Tompkins 663,306 Dec. 4, 1900
Mosgoffian 2,048,461 Jul. 21, 1936
Johnson 2,052,771 Sept. 1,
1936 Bardin 2,434,784 Jan.
20, 1948
Puste 2,652,875 Sept. 22, 1953
Henrich 2,704,563 Mar. 22, 1955
Woodruff, Sr. (Woodruff) 2,764,765 Oct. 2, 1956
Hirsch 3,622,155 Nov. 23, 1971
Anglin et al. (Anglin) 5,018,564 May. 28, 1991
Wetzel 5,120,054 Jun. 9, 1992
Zaruba 5,224,699 Jul. 6, 1993
Claims 1 through 11 and 13 through 26 stand rejected as
follows:
a) claims 1 through 3, 6, 8 and 11 under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as bing anticipated by Puste;
b) claim 4 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Puste in view of Anglin;
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