Appeal No. 2006-0813
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,235
plastic dividers (60) to “permit variation in tray compartment size.” McLaughlin, col. 8, ll. 1-
4. Thus, McLaughlin teaches the concept of using removable partitions to allow changing
the size of storage compartments for the convenience of the user.
The examiner relies on Marder for the disclosure of a medical cart having different
sized drawers including two smaller drawers having the same width as one larger drawer.
Marder’s Figures 1 and 2 show a medical cart having drawers 44 and 46 which appear to
have the same total width as drawer 40. Marder’s Figure 1 is reproduced below:
Marder describes these drawers as follows:
The cart is provided with a pair of full width drawers, respectively an
upper drawer 38 and a lower drawer 40, mounted on suitable pull-out
drawer-slide mechanisms 42. Each of the drawers 38, 40 is only
about 2/3 of the height of the space in which it is mounted. Beneath
the lower drawer 40 there is a pair of half-width drawers or bins 44
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