Appeal No. 2000-0574
Application No. 08/876,321
art at the time of appellant's invention, as illustrated for
example by MacDonald. Merely to use a well known securement
means, such as straps or banding, to retain the panels of the
Porch containers in stacks during shipping, so that they are
ready for assembly at the point of use, would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art. Thus, we shall
sustain the examiner's rejection of claim 15 as being
unpatentable over Porch in view of MacDonald.
Claims 16 and 17 depend from claim 14 and further require
shrink wrap and stretch wrap, respectively, wrapped around the
side members and the lid assembly to secure same together.
The examiner has rejected these claims as being unpatentable
over Porch in view of Kendig.
Kendig (column 8, lines 25-35) discloses the use of
shrink wrap or stretch wrap for securing container halves
together and recognizes that an advantage of using such a
securement means is the keeping out of all dust and dirt. One
of ordinary skill in the art would have appreciated from the
teachings of Kendig the advantage of using shrink or stretch
wrap to secure the elements of the Porch shipping container
together, in either the assembled or unassembled state, to
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