Appeal No. 1997-0373 Page 3
Application No. 08/151,694
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a stencil master
plate sheet pay-out device for paying out a stencil master
plate sheet from a sheet roll. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 12,
which appears in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Wooster et al. (Wooster) 1,935,970 Nov.
21, 1933
Tetro et al. (Tetro) 4,199,118 Apr. 22,
1980
Newell et al. (Newell) 4,848,698 July 18,
1989
Claims 12 to 15, 17, 21 to 25 and 27 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Tetro in view of
Wooster and Newell.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
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