Appeal No. 1998-2726
Application 08/440,991
The appellants’ invention is directed to an integrated
garden system. The claims on appeal have been reproduced in
an appendix to the Brief.
THE APPLIED REFERENCES
Ryder 84,002 Nov. 10, 1868
Courtney 1,129,554 Feb. 23, 1915
Aoyama 4,135,330 Jan. 23, 1979
Tomarin 4,396,653 Aug. 2, 1983
Plasticall
(European) 0 361 555 Apr. 4, 1990
Kaufmann
(Switzerland) 611,117 May 31, 1979
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 16 stands 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.
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
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appellants have provided arguments in the Brief disputing the examiner’s
decision, this is a petitionable matter not within the purview of the Board of
Patent Appeals and Interferences (see MPEP § 1201 and § 1002.02(c)).
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