Appeal No. 99-1479
Application 08/609,991
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
14 to 16, 22, 23, 30, 32, 33, 35 and 36. Of the other claims
remaining in the application, claims 17 to 21, 27 and 34 stand
withdrawn from consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being
directed to nonelected species, and claims 24 to 26, 28, 29
and 31 have been indicated as being allowable if rewritten in
independent form.
The claims on appeal, which are reproduced in the
appendix of appellants' brief, are drawn to a pull-out guide
fitting (claims 14 to 16, 22 and 23), and a retaining plate
(claims 30, 32, 33, 35 and 36).
The reference applied in the final rejection is:
German Gebrauchsmuster 9,413,108 Feb. 23,
19952
(Grass AG)
A reference, of record, applied herein in rejections
pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b) is:
2A translation of this reference, prepared for the Patent
& Trademark Office, is forwarded to appellants herewith. All
citations in this decision to pages and lines of Grass AG are
to pages and lines of the translation.
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