Appeal No. 2001-0464 Page 2
Application No. 08/888,967
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an arrangement for
supporting the weight of a snowboard while riding up a
chairlift (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:
Piper 4,013,318 Mar. 22,
1977
Gomez et al. 5,564,729 Oct. 15,
1996
(Gomez)
Westwood, III 5,913,479 June 22,
1999
(Westwood)
Claims 6 to 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Westwood in view of Piper and Gomez.2
2 Since rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, set
forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 13, mailed April 11, 2000)
was not set forth in the examiner's answer we assume that this ground
of rejection has been withdrawn by the examiner. See Ex parte Emm,
118 USPQ 180, 181 (Bd. App. 1957).
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