Ex parte ANGLEA - Page 2




               Appeal No. 1998-2019                                                                       Page 2                 
               Application No. 08/398,752                                                                                        


                                                       BACKGROUND                                                                
                      The appellant's invention relates to a device used for plugging an opening into and                        
               locating a receptacle in an anchor for a base used on a playing field.  An understanding of the                   
               invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix                       
               to the appellant's brief.1                                                                                        
                      The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed                   
               claims are:                                                                                                       
               Shopbell                              3,371,647                             Mar. 5, 1968                          
               Graw                                  2,457,655                             Jun. 10, 19762                        
               (German patent document)                                                                                          
                      The following rejections are before us for review.                                                         
               1.     Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being                               
               indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the                
               appellant regards as the invention.                                                                               








                      1The copy of claim 1 in the appendix to the appellant's brief contains a minor error in line 11 thereof in 
               that the claim of record reads "playing field surface" and not "playing ground surface."                          
                      2An English language translation of this reference, prepared by the Patent and Trademark Office, is        
               appended hereto.                                                                                                  







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