Appeal No. 2003-0125
Application No. 09/722,529
bowed relationship to the back panel to denote a front panel with
an arcuate or curved configuration; for example, as seen in Figs.
8d and 9.5
Turning now to the highly relevant Hansen patent applied by
the examiner, we find a one piece sheet or blank 20 (Fig. 5) for
forming an insert 12 (Fig. 1), with the blank being particularly
characterized by first 22 and second 24 panels separated by a
score line 54. As formed, the first and second panels 22, 24 of
the insert overlie a third panel 26 (Figs. 1 through 3).
However, the overlying panels would form a tent 30 having a crest
32 (at the score line 54). Thus, the blank 20 of Hansen would
not yield an outwardly bowed (curved) configuration relative to
the third panel 26. It is for this reason that claim 26 is not
anticipated by the Hansen patent.
5 Our understanding comports with a common definition of bow
as something bent into a simple curve. Webster’s New Collegiate
Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachusetts,
1979.
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