Appeal No. 97-4248
Application 08/567,617
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
and 3 to 10, all the claims remaining in the application.2
The invention in issue concerns a quick-connect tubular
coupling. A copy of the appealed claims is contained in the
Appendix to appellants’ brief.3
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Frye 4,715,624 Dec. 29, 1987
McConnell 5,094,494 Mar. 10, 1992
Claims 1 and 3 to 10 stand finally rejected on the
following grounds:
(1) Claims 1 and 3 to 8, anticipated by McConnell, under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b);
2By amendment following the final rejection (filed
February 14, 1997), appellants cancelled claim 2 and amended
claims 1 and 8.
3In reviewing the appealed claims, we note that claim 10
recites “cage means” in line 4, but then recites a “cage” in the
remainder of the claim (lines 4, 13, 19 and 21). This
discrepancy should be corrected in any further prosecution of the
case.
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