Appeal No. 1999-2363
Application 08/587,710
of an
amendment to claim 1 made subsequent to final rejection.
Claims 28 through 30, the only other claims pending in the
application, stand withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37
CFR § 1.142(b).
The subject matter on appeal relates to a clip-on
fastener assembly for use in conjunction with a wall opening.
A copy of appealed claims 5 through 10 and 32 appears in the
appendix to the appellants’ main brief (Paper No. 20).
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Chartier 4,576,533 Mar. 18, 1986
Thiel 4,582,462 Apr. 15, 1986
The appealed claims stand finally rejected as follows:
a) claims 5 through 10 and 32 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as failing to particularly point out and
distinctly claim the subject matter the appellants regard as
the invention;1
1The record indicates that the examiner’s failure to
restate this rejection in the answer (Paper No. 25) was an
inadvertent oversight.
2
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