Appeal No. 2006-1951 Παγε 2
Application No. 10/392,140
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a blank for a sink
(specification, page 1).
Claim 10 is representative of the invention, and is reproduced as
follows:
10. A sink comprising
a drawn one piece metal body defining a floor and an
upstanding wall extending peripherally of said floor; and
a peripheral metal frame welded to and extending upwardly
from said wall of said body.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Just 2,456,065 Dec. 14, 1948
Wenning et al. (Wenning) 6,488,172 Dec. 3, 2002
Claims 10, 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b)1 as being anticipated by Wenning.
1 Because the Wennings patent issued less than one year prior to the filing of the application, we
consider the rejection to under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) rather than 102(b).
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