Appeal No. 2000-0506
Application 08/979,592
September 14, 1999) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the above-noted rejections, and to appellant’s brief (Paper
No. 10, filed August 6, 1999) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Having carefully reviewed and evaluated the obviousness
issues raised in this appeal in light of the record before us,
we have come to the conclusion, for the reasons which follow,
that
the examiner's rejections of the appealed claims under 35
U.S.C. § 103 will not be sustained.
Considering first the rejection of the claims on appeal
based on Von Herrmann (‘013) and Cauffman, we observe that Von
Herrmann (‘013) discloses an apparatus (Figure 1) for holding
a piece of paper or poster board (16) in a substantially
vertical plane, which apparatus is generally like that claimed
by appellant. More specifically, the housing or hanger (1) of
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