Appeal No. 2001-1493 Page 2
Application No. 09/109,016
application, stand withdrawn from further consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being
directed to a non-elected invention.
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a punch for adapting oversized (e.g., legal
sized) paper for storage in standard sized (e.g., letter sized) ring binders. A copy of the
claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references of record in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Yerkes 3,073,199 Jan. 15, 1963
Piazze 3,274,869 Sep. 27, 1966
Szanto et al. (Szanto) 4,354,405 Oct. 19, 1982
The following rejections are before us for review.
(1) Claim 10 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being unpatentable over
Yerkes.
(2) Claims 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Yerkes in view of Szanto.
(3) Claims 11 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Yerkes in view of Szanto and Piazze.
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