Appeal No. 2001-0467
Application No. 29/100,490
The appealed claim stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Decursu in view of Simpson.
Reference is made to the brief and reply brief (Paper
Nos. 13 and 15) and the answer (Paper No. 14) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner with
regard to the merits of this rejection.
Appellant's claimed design
Appellant's handle design includes a central elongate
cylindrical stalk section having a softly curving right-angle
elbow extending from each end of the stalk, with a
circumferential seam defining each end of the stalk and the
beginning of each elbow. Each elbow starts with a cylindrical
section extending co-axially from the stalk section and
transitioning into a leg section extending radially outward
from the cylindrical section. The leg sections have flat side
faces, partial cylindrical inner faces (facing one another)
and outer faces which are curved in two directions (seen in
the side views and front and rear views). While the outer
faces of the leg sections are softly and continuously curved
from the junctions with the cylindrical sections of the elbows
to the end faces of the leg sections, there is an abrupt and
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