Appeal No. 97-1260
Application 08/124,774
the examiner with regard to the propriety of these rejections.
Since the appellant, stating that “[n]o independent defense is
presented in connection with claims 2-15, 17, 18, 19, 21 and
22 which all depend directly or ultimately from the sole
independent claim 1" (main brief, page 5), has not challenged 5
the rejections of the dependent claims with any reasonable
specificity, all of
the dependent claims shall stand or fall with independent
claim 1 (see In re Nielson, 816 F.2d 1567, 1572, 2 USPQ2d
1525, 1528 (Fed. Cir. 1987)).
Weber discloses a carding machine having a large or main
carding cylinder T and an apparatus for introducing fiber
material to this cylinder. The introducing apparatus includes
a fiber feeding device composed of a fluted feed cylinder C
and a spreading device F, a licker-in composed of a breaker
roll B, and an additional breaker roll A immediately adjoining
5The copy of claim 19 in the appendix to the appellant’s
main brief, which shows the claim to be independent, is not
accurate.
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