Appeal No. 2005-0655
Application No. 09/896,505
1. An elongate metallic structural member having an
elongate, planar web surface having longitudinal edges; a first
leg member and a second leg member depending to one side of said
web member from said longitudinal edges, said first leg member
and said second leg member being mirror images, said first leg
member and said second leg member terminating with outwardly
extending hollow flanges, each outwardly extending flange having
a margin member juxtaposed said respective leg member.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Seccombe et al. 5,535,569 Jul. 16, 1996
(Seccombe)
Dolati et al. 5,771,653 Jun. 30, 1998
(Dolati)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Dolati in view of Seccombe.
Attention is directed to the brief (Paper No. 11) and answer
(Paper No. 12) for the respective positions of the appellants and
examiner regarding the merits of this rejection.1
1
1 In both the final rejection and answer, the examiner
omitted claims 6 and 8 from the statement of the rejection. The
accompanying explanations of the rejection indicate, however,
that the omission was inadvertent.
2
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