Appeal No. 1998-3421
Application No. 08/646,995
issued to Donald F. Morgan on September 24, 1996 (based on
an application filed June 7, 1995)3 alone or in combination
with the WMRR publication. The Morgan patent discloses a
method of reusing and recycling plastic garment hangers
similar the method disclosed in the WMRR publication.
Morgan, however, is more pertinent than the WMRR
publication in that it expressly teaches the step of
removing size indicating parts from the returned hangers at
a reuse collection center 18 (see column 5, lines 56-60).
As such, the Morgan patent appears to supply the
deficiencies of the WMRR publication, so that the only
difference between Morgan and the subject matter of claim 1
3 This patent was cited by appellant in a supplemental information
disclosure statement (Paper No. 16).
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