Appeal No. 2000-0574
Application No. 08/876,321
(6) Claims 1, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Boughner in view of
Covington.
Reference is made to the brief (Paper No. 9) and the
answer (Paper No. 10) for the respective positions of the
appellant and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellant's specification and1
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
We note that Figure 2, which appears to indicate that the end walls 281
are to be attached to the base 25 such that the lower regions of the inner
faces of the end walls 28 abut the ends of the base 25, is inconsistent with
the disclosure on page 10 of the specification, which states that the "end
walls 28 are inserted down from top to lie flush on the upper surface of base
25."
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