Appeal No. 1998-3426
Application 08/762,204
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Ross 3,874,666 Apr. 1, 1975
Claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) as being anticipated
by Ross.
The examiner's full statement of this rejection and response to appellants'
arguments appears on pages 4 through 7 of the examiner's answer (Paper No. 11,
mailed July 7, 1998). Appellants' viewpoints concerning the examiner's rejection of
the appealed claims are found in the brief (Paper No. 10, filed
June 25, 1998) and in the reply brief (Paper No. 12, filed August 3, 1998).
0PINION
In arriving at our decision in this appeal, we have carefully considered appellants'
specification and claims, the applied Ross patent, and the respective viewpoints of
appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made the
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