Appeal No. 2001-0533
Application No. 09/322,043
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with
regard to the merits of these rejections.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants' specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
The anticipation rejection
Smith discloses an adapter closure for use with a pair of
containers for pouring contents of one of the containers into
the other container. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the adapter
closure 11 is used with two bottles 12, 13 and includes a body
portion 15 with an axial passage 16 extending therethrough,
first and second threaded sections 19, 20 and a shoulder
portion 17 extending inwardly from the body portion 15,
preferably at substantially the midpoint thereof. The
threaded portions 19, 20 terminate closely adjacent the
shoulder portion 17. The shoulder portion extends radially
inward from the body portion only part of the way toward the
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