Appeal No. 1998-1533 Page 2
Application No. 08/411,202
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a disc brake
assembly. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears
in the opinion section below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Kawase 4,471,858 Sep. 18,
1984
Feldmann et al. 4,600,090 July 15,
1986
(Feldmann)
Tarter 4,705,146 Nov. 10,
1987
Iwashita et al. 5,363,943 Nov. 15,
19942
(Iwashita)
Hummel et al. 5,535,860 July 16,
19963
(Hummel)
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Tarter in view of Feldmann.
2Filed October 8, 1992.
3Effective filing date March 23, 1994.
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