Appeal No. 2005-1309
Application No. 09/971,505
decorative, filtering and structural reinforcing applications.
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:1
1. A three-dimensional object folded from a flat work piece,
wherein the three-dimensional object (20) is comprised of several
rows (5, 6, 7) of hollow pyramid elements (30) that are joined in
rows and nested into one another.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Hooker 3,894,352 Jul. 15, 1975
Kanno et al. (Kanno) 6,309,438 Oct. 30, 2001
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1 and 3 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Hooker.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Hooker in view of Kanno.
Attention is directed to the main and reply briefs (filed
February 17, 2004 and June 14, 2004) and answer (mailed April 19,
2004) for the respective positions of the appellants and examiner
regarding the merits of these rejections.
1 In the event of further prosecution, steps should be taken
to correct the inconsistency posed by the reference to “object
(30)” in claim 6. Both the underlying specification and parent
claim 1 utilize reference numeral 20 to denote the “object” and
reference numeral 30 to denote the “pyramid elements.”
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