Appeal No. 2002-0982
Application No. 09/359,389
appellants’ specification and claims, the applied teaching, and 1
the respective viewpoints of appellants and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we make the determinations which
follow.
We do not sustain the rejections on appeal.
Appellants’ claims 1 and 7 each include the feature, inter
alia, of a plurality of pins each fitted to a corresponding one
of bores in strips for forming rows of pins interspersed with
rows of ribs for supporting a worksheet.
Like the examiner (answer, page 4), we readily appreciate
the breadth of appellants’ claims on appeal. Further, we share
the examiner’s point of view that elements of claims 1 and 7,
i.e, a frame, ribs, strips, and pins, are readable upon side
1In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of the document for what it
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