Appeal No. 2000-1307 Page 2
Application No. 08/474,314
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to furniture for seating having a frame, the
larger portion of which is made with a molding process (specification, p. 1). A copy of
the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Thaden 2,818,107 Dec. 31, 1957
Burton et al. (Burton) 3,719,389 Mar. 6, 1973
Deegener et al. (Deegener) 4,685,739 Aug. 11, 1987
Claims 1, 3 to 28, 43 to 47, 58 to 63, 67 and 69 to 77 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Thaden in view of Deegener.
Claims 29 and 48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Thaden in view of Deegener and Burton.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 34, mailed September 14, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the brief (Paper No. 33, filed July 1, 1999) and reply
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