Appeal No. 2000-1660 Page 2
Application No. 08/868,081
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an overhead storage
unit for use with modular office systems (specification, p.
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Aylworth RE 28,994 Oct. 5,
1976
White 5,022,541 June 11,
1991
Claims 19 to 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Aylworth in view of White.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 16,
mailed May 7, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 15,
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