Appeal No. 1999-2126 Page 2
Application No. 08/857,938
been canceled, and claims 22 and 25-30 have been withdrawn from
consideration as reading on non-elected species (Paper No. 6).
No claims have been allowed.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a liquid filter
and pressure regulator. The claims on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Burhans et al. (Burhans) 3,233,738 Feb.
8, 1966
Wilkinson 3,388,802 Jun.
18, 1968
Robinson (Robinson ‘203) 5,275,203 Jan.
4, 1994
Robinson (Robinson ‘241) 5,433,241 Jul.
18, 1995
Gebert et al. (Gebert) 5,698,097 Dec. 16,
1997
(filed Sep. 13, 1995)
THE REJECTION2
2The rejection of claims 19-21, 23 and 24 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, that appeared in the final rejection
(Paper No. 8) apparently was overcome by the amendment entered
thereafter (Paper No. 11), for it was not repeated in the
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