Appeal No. 2004-0918 Page 2
Application No. 09/715,547
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a portable housing, constructed for
accommodating an audio or light mixer, the housing having an accommodating frame
for the mixer with a bottom, a front wall, a rear wall, two sidewalls and an upper side
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the dependent claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellant's brief. Claim 24, the only independent claim on appeal,
reads as follows:
A portable housing for receiving an audio or light mixer and an audio or
light effect device, comprising
a frame having a bottom, front and rear walls, two opposite side walls, and
an upper side, the bottom, the front, rear, and side walls defining together a
space within which the audio or light mixer and the audio or light effect device,
respectively, are received, the frame further having first opening for operating the
audio or light mixer receivable in the receiving space, and a second, slide-in
opening spaced from the first operating opening and through which the audio or
light effect device is inserted into the receiving space; and
means provided within the frame for accommodating the audio or light
mixer and the audio or light effect device in the receiving space.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Benson 941,608 Nov. 30, 1909
Siklos 3,424,509 Jan. 28, 1969
Claims 24 to 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Siklos.
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