Appeal No. 1998-2113
Application No. 08/685,478
base (14) such as a pallet. Claim 15, however, is not
limited to a base of any kind.
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellants= brief.
The following references are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness in support of his
rejection under 35 U.S.C. ' 103:
Burleson et al. 3,670,880 Jun. 20, 1972
Handelsondern 8900271 Sept. 3, 1990
(Netherlands Patent Application)2
In addition to the foregoing references, the
examiner has cited as Anew prior art@ the Yourgalite et al.
patent No. 5,005,335 (see page 3 of the answer). This
reference, however, is not included in the statement of the
rejection of the claims.
2 Translation attached.
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