Appeal No. 1998-0294
Application No. 08/318,726
The appellants’ invention is directed to a humidifier
(claims 1, 8 and 9) and to an elongate hollow yarn body
(claims 2-7). 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:
Schladitz 3,869,242 Mar. 4,
1975
Desage 4,748,314 May 31, 1988
Japanese publication 2-4147 Jan. 11, 1990
Kawasaki et al. (Japanese reference) 1
THE REJECTIONS
The following rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are before
us:2
1 Our understanding of this reference was obtained from a
PTO translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
2Apparently because he inadvertently omitted claim 9 from
the final rejection, the examiner made two new rejections in
the answer, encompassing all nine claims, while maintaining
the two original rejections. However, inconsistencies exist
between the two sets of rejections. We have set forth the
examiner’s positions, as we understand them to be, in the
following two expressions of the rejections.
2
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