Appeal No. 2001-0271 Page 2
Application No. 08/855,474
as a computer disk holder and a mouse pad (specification, p.
2). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellant's brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art
references of record in rejecting the appealed claims:
Zielinski 4,002,892 Jan.
11,
1977
House 5,022,170 Jun. 11,
1991
Spector 5,600,628 Feb. 4,
1997
(filed Sep. 16, 1992)
Murphy 5,696,536 Dec. 9,
1997
(filed Dec. 22, 1995)
(1) Claims 8-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
appellant regards as the invention.
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