Appeal No. 2004-0631 Page 10
Application No. 10/236,715
made it obvious at the time the invention was made to a person of ordinary skill in the
art to have modified the fishing rod case of Sauey to arrive at the claimed invention.
Specifically, the applied prior art does not suggest a plurality of elongated security bars
removably attachable in series to one another and to the segments as set forth in
claims 1 and 12, the only independent claims on appeal. Accordingly, the decision of
the examiner to reject claims 3 to 5, 12 to 16 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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