Ex parte STRETCH - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 97-3085                                                                                                                     
                 Application 08/236,835                                                                                                                 


                 The appellant has since requested that claims 9 and 15 be held                                                                         


                 withdrawn from consideration (see page 5 in the appellant’s                                                                            
                 brief, Paper No. 21).  Accordingly, the appeal as to claims 9                                                                          
                 and 15 is hereby dismissed, leaving for review the standing                                                                            
                 rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 through 7, 10 through 13 and 16                                                                            
                 through 21.         2                                                                                                                  
                          The invention relates to an isolator for attenuating and                                                                      
                 dampening vehicle driveline torsionals (i.e., pulses)                                                                                  
                 generated by accelerations/decelerations of the vehicle’s                                                                              
                 engine.  A copy of the appealed claims (with reference                                                                                 
                 numerals added) appears in the appendix to the appellants’                                                                             
                 brief.                                                                                                                                 
                          The instant application is one of four related                                                                                
                 applications filed concurrently on May 2, 1994 by Eaton                                                                                
                 Corporation, the assignee of entire interest in each of the                                                                            
                 applications.  Three of the applications, Applications                                                                                 
                 08/236,809, 08/236,835 and 08/236,838, are currently on appeal                                                                         



                          2All of the claims remaining on appeal have been amended                                                                      
                 subsequent to final rejection.                                                                                                         
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