Appeal No. 2002-1906
Application 09/263,532
shank of the double hook and a second soft bodied plastic bait
partially threaded onto said second parallel shank of the double
hook and the second soft bodied bait is clamped in place along
the second parallel shank by said first parallel shank.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Temple 3,400,483 Sep. 10, 1968
Bablick 3,600,838 Aug. 24, 1971
Renaud 4,750,290 Jun. 14, 1988
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Temple in view of Renaud.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Temple in view of Renaud and Bablick.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 7 and 9) and to the examiner’s final rejection
and answer (Paper Nos. 4 and 8) for the respective positions of
the appellant and the examiner regarding the merits of these
rejections.
DISCUSSION
Temple, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses in
Figures 4 and 5 a combination fishhook and live bait holder
formed from a single piece of wire material. The fishhook 1
consists of an eye 2, a shank 3 and a curved portion 4 having a
2
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