Appeal No. 1998-1937
Application No. 08/518,509
withdrawn from
further consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as not being
readable on the elected species.
Appellant’s invention pertains to “an overhead door
suspended from the top of an opening of a cabinet or the like
and capable of being lifted until it is placed on the roof
wall of the cabinet to keep the door open” (specification,
page 1). A further understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 3, a substantially
correct copy of which appears in an appendix to appellant’s
main brief.2
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Holmes 2,388,654 Nov. 6,
1945
Ferris 2,390,086 Dec. 4,
1945
Carson et al. (Carson) 5,524,979 Jun. 11,
1996
2In the copy of claim 3 found in the appendix to
appellant’s main brief, line 7, “said one of the corresponding
stays” should read --said corresponding one of the stays--.
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