Appeal No. 2001-1636 Page 2
Application No. 09/226,890
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a furniture system adapted to expand and
contract to form offices of different sizes and having different footprints in plan view
(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:
Schreyer 3,338,647 Aug. 29, 1967
Gilbert et al. (Gilbert) 3,538,976 Nov. 10, 1970
Hobgood 4,635,418 Jan. 13, 1987
2
Roche FR 33,471 Sep. 28, 1928
Claims 1 to 5, 9, 11 and 21 to 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Roche in view of Hobgood.
2In determining the teachings of Roche, we will rely on the translation of record.
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