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          Appeal No. 97-2412                                                         
          Application No. 08/330,136                                                 

          publication entitled “TOYOTA AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION REPAIR                 
          INSTRUCTION A341E, November, 1989 (Vol. 63231)."  As                       
          indicated, the transmission includes a sleeve made of wear                 
          resisting material, press-fitted onto a stationary shaft.  The             
          ‘746 application includes Fig. 1, disclosed as being a cross-              
          sectional view of an upper portion of an automatic                         
          transmission according to the present invention (page 2), and              
          Fig. 2, described as being an enlarged view of Fig. 1 (page                
          3). In the ‘746 application, under the section “DESCRIPTION OF             
          THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT,” appellant indicates, referring to               
          Fig. 1, that “there is shown an automatic transmission                     
          disclosed in a publication entitled NISSAN AUTOMATIC TRANSAXLE             
          RL4FO3A - MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE MANUAL, May, 1989, to which a              
          transmission according to the present invention is applied.”               
          It is noted that the priority document, found in the ‘746                  
          application, includes Figs. 1                                              
          through 3.  Unlike Figs. 1 and 2 of the present application,               
          wherein a like sleeve is shown, Fig. 1 of the priority                     
          document appears to show a sleeve different from the sleeve                
          configuration in Fig. 2 thereof.                                           



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