Appeal No. 98-3404
Application 08/600,813
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Appellants’ invention relates to a handle attachment for use on a reel-type fishing rod. A first
embodiment of the handle attachment, referred to by appellants as the preferred embodiment, is seen in
Figure 1 of the drawings, while a second embodiment of the handle attachment is seen in Figure 2. A
copy of claims 1, 11, 12 and 13 on appeal, as reproduced from appellants’ Appendix to the brief, is
attached to this decision.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims is:
Bowen 2,158,104 May 16, 1939
Claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 and 11 through 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Bowen.
Claims 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing subject
matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one
skilled in the relevant art that the inventors, at the time the application was filed, had possession of the
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