The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 13 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte WILLIAM D. KING and FREDERICK D. OBERHAUS ____________ Appeal No. 2001-0150 Application No. 09/250,617 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges. CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 3 through 5, which are all the claims pending in the application as claims 1 and 2 have been canceled. The appellants claimed subject matter is a suspended shoe rack. An understanding of the claimed subject matter can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 4 which appears in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007