Appeal No. 2004-0247 Page 2
Application No. 09/899,664
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a snowboard binding. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears 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:
Swanson 2,210,048 Aug. 6, 1940
Lehner et al. (Lehner) 19836554 Jan. 5, 2000
(German Patent Publication)1
Claims 1, 2 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Lehner in view of Swanson.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 10) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Brief (Paper No. 9) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
1Our understanding of this foreign language reference was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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