Appeal No. 96-1303
Application 08/098,516
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 to 30, all the claims remaining in the application.
The claims on appeal are drawn to a device for
holding a tube-shaped body, and are reproduced in Addendum A
of appel- lant’s brief filed August 9, 1995 (Paper No. 12).2
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Ellinwood 2,396,837 Mar. 19, 1946
Hopkins 3,126,183 Mar. 24, 1964
Cochran 3,163,712 Dec. 29, 1964
Nelson 4,264,047 Apr. 28, 1981
Santucci et al. (Santucci) 4,635,886 Jan. 13, 1987
Caveney et al. (Caveney) 4,919,373 Apr. 24, 1990
Kamiya et al. (Kamiya) 5,131,613 July 21, 1992
Milcent et al. (Milcent) 5,169,100 Dec. 8, 1992
The appealed claims stand finally rejected as fol-
lows:
2Any subsequent references in this decision to appel-
lant’s brief are to the brief subsequently filed on August 7,
1997 (Paper No. 17).
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