Appeal No. 1998-2096
Application No. 08/586,966
a second curved lip portion [27] extending
transversely outward from the body portion and being
positioned forwardly of the first curved lip portion
for further facilitating rotation of the anchor in
the ground, said first and second curved lips being
positioned along a bottom face of the body portion
and said first curved lip portion extending
transversely outward from the body portion a greater
distance than said second curved lip.
Claim 23 is drawn to a ground anchor comprising a rigid
plate member [10] having a tubular longitudinal central body
portion [11], wings [12] radiating laterally from the body
portion and
a central axial leg portion [13] projecting from the
front end of the body portion forwardly of the wings
and having radiating side edges [14], said side
edges of said leg portion each having a plurality of
sharpened leading side edges [14a, 14b] which are
each longitudinally offset with respect to each
other.
The examiner acknowledges that Chandler does not
explicitly teach the second curved lip portion of claim 20 or
the central axial leg portion having a plurality of sharpened
leading side edges which are each longitudinally offset with
respect to each other as recited in claim 23. However, it is
the examiner’s position that it would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art to add a second curved lip to the
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