Appeal No. 2004-0366 Page 7
Application No. 09/848,044
Mudd discloses an advertising device designed to extend across a street or
thoroughfare and to exhibit moving advertising signs, bulletins, and the like. Mudd
teaches, as shown in Figure 1, a system for suspending a plurality of the advertising
signs 6 by a cable 5 and guide cables 16. The cable 5 and guide cables 16 are
suspended in a parallel relationship to each other to extend over the street between a
pair of sheds 3 and 4 situated on top of houses or buildings 1 and 2. The cable 5 is
continuous and passes over a pair of pulleys 7 (disposed in shed 4) and a grooved
pulley 8 (disposed in shed 3). The grooved pulley 8 is connected to a drive shaft 9,
which may be rotated by a crank-handle 22 or by a motor. The guide cables 16 are
attached in any desired manner to a pair of stop boards or plates 13 mounted to the
sheds 3 and 4.
The appellants argue (brief, pp. 7-10) that (1) claim 1 is not anticipated by Mudd
since Mudd lacks the first and second weights (i.e., "each of said first and second
weights coupled respectively to a corresponding one of said first and second cable
segments, whereby tension is applied to each of said first and second cable
segments"); (2) claim 18 is not anticipated by Mudd since Mudd lacks "a weight affixed
to said cable segment, whereby tension is applied to said cable segment;" (3) claim 21
is not anticipated by Mudd since Mudd lacks a sign suspended from one cable segment
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