Appeal No. 2006-0366
Application 10/382,285
removing the elongated hollow tube member, thereby exposing the rod member
affixed to the anchor.1
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by
the examiner to support the final rejection are:
O 5,154,104 Oct. 13, 1992
Strauch 5,400,681 Mar. 28, 1995
Huang 5,943,925 Aug. 31, 1999
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-4, 7-14, 18, and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over O in view of Huang.
Claims 5, 6, 16, 17, and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over O in view of Huang and Strauch.
1 In the event of further prosecution before the examiner,
steps should be taken to correct the lack of proper antecedent
basis in claim 19 for the terms “the socket end of the elongated
hollow tube member,” “the socket” and “the ceiling.”
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