Appeal No. 2001-1078 Page 2
Application No. 08/750,910
The appellants' invention relates to a plant cube having
a laminated structure of mineral wool fibres oriented in
parallel to each other (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:
Blok EP 0 209 958 Feb. 1, 1987
Dunn WO 89/01736 1 Mar. 9, 1989
Claims 1 to 3 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Blok in view of Dunn.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No.
19, mailed September 15, 1999) and the answer (Paper No. 25,
1In determining the teachings of Dunn, we will rely on
the translation provided by the USPTO. A copy of the
translation is attached for the appellants' convenience.
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