Ex parte NEUMANN et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 95-4918                                                          
          Application No. 08/114,293                                                  
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2                 
          through 22 and 24, and from the refusal of the examiner to                  
          allow                                                                       




          claim 23, as amended subsequent to the final rejection.  These              
          claims constitute all of the claims remaining in the                        
          application.                                                                
               Appellants’ invention pertains to a device, and process                
          for damping the motion sequences of two masses.  An                         
          understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading                
          of exemplary claims 13, 19 and 21, copies of which appear in                
          the corrected APPENDIX communication of Paper No. 39.                       
               As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the               
          documents listed below:                                                     

          Fujishiro et al.         4,696,489                     Sep. 29,             
          1987                                                                        
          (Fujishiro)                                                                 
          Wolfe                    4,953,089                     Aug. 28,             
          1990                                                                        
          Ivers et al.             5,004,079                     Apr.  2,             
          1991                                                                        
          (Ivers)                                                                     
               The following rejection, as set forth in the answer                    
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