Appeal No. 2000-0506
Application 08/979,592
In the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 11, page 7), the examiner
has withdrawn the rejection of claim 11, indicating that this
claim is now objected to, but would be allowable if rewritten
in independent form. Claims 4, 5, 7, 16 and 17 have been
canceled. In accordance with the foregoing, we note that only
claims 1 through 3, 6, 8 through 10, 12 through 15 and 18
remain for our consideration on appeal.
Appellant’s invention relates to an apparatus (Figure 1)
for holding a piece of paper or poster board in a
substantially vertical plane and to a method of positioning a
piece of paper on a substantially vertical surface using such
an apparatus (claim 18). Claims 1 and 18 are representative
of the claimed subject matter on appeal, and a copy of those
claims, as they appear in the Appendix to appellant’s brief,
is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
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