Appeal No. 2002-0152 Page 6
Application No. 09/004,775
found any suggestion in White’s teachings to modify the AAPA support structure so as
to provide a vertically extending center bracket, like the vertical supports 28 of White,
with attached “slides” (goal mounting members 44 of White), or even how such
additional structure would be incorporated into the AAPA structure. Rather, White
would appear to suggest mounting of the rim to the lateral supports 52 (the backboard
mount) of the AAPA structure. Lykens discloses a mounting structure for mounting a
backboard 10 and net organization 11 and, like the AAPA of Figure 2 of Schroeder,
provides no details as to the manner of mounting the net organization and, thus,
provides no cure for the deficiency of the combined teachings of the AAPA and White
discussed above.
For the foregoing reasons, we shall not sustain the examiner’s rejection of
independent claims 1, 7, 12 and 18, or, it follows, of dependent claims 3-6, 8-11, 13-17
and 19-25.
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