Appeal No. 1998-1942 Page 3
Application No. 08/530,254
These claims constitute all of the claims pending in this
application.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a draining device for
a hole in a floor with a floor covering (claims 23-40) and a
method for draining a hole [sic, providing a drainage hole] in a
floor having a floor covering (claims 41-44). A copy of the
claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Whitsett 3,725,964 Apr. 10,
1973
Kessel 4,263,138 Apr. 21,
1981
Logsdon 4,742,585 May 10,
1988
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