Appeal No. 2000-0204
Application No. 08/512,068
candles can be manufactured in glass candle containers or
suggest that glass candle containers could be placed inside of
his candle mold.
We find appellant's argument to be unpersuasive of any
error on the examiner's part. Claim 13 on appeal is directed
to a wick holding grate per se and not to candles manufactured
in glass candle containers or to any combination of a wick
holding grate and candles in glass candle containers arranged
in a particular relationship in a shipping container. Like
the examiner, it is our view that the wick holding element
(36) of Bolinger Figure 8 is fully responsive to, and thus
anticipatory of, the wick holding grate set forth in claim 13
on appeal. We also observe that the wick holding elements
seen in Figures 9 and 16 of Bolinger appear to be fully
responsive to the wick holding grate defined in appellant's
claim 13. Like the examiner, we additionally find that the
wick holding element (36) of Bolinger is clearly capable of
being shipped along with the candles of Bolinger as part of a
shipping container. In this regard, we note that the language
of appellant's claim 13 requires no more than that the wick
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