Application of Lifton

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner ’rejecting claims 14, 15, 16, 17, and 21 in appellant’s application for a patent for an invention relating to a “Compound Brief Case.” Process Claims 18, 19, 20, and 22 were allowed.

The appealed claims read:

“14. In a brief case, a gusset, a panel comprising complementary elbows defining a rim including upper horizontally alined and independent reaches having inner ends disposed in juxtaposition and including downwardly extending limbs…