Ex parte ROMANN et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 2001-0089                                                        
          Application 08/975,469                                                      


          1.142(b), as being based upon a non-elected invention.  These               
          claims constitute all of the claims remaining in the                        
          application.                                                                


               Appellants’ invention pertains to a method of forming a                
          plastic sheath on an electromagnetic valve and an annular                   
          plastic ring in a retaining groove in an inlet end of the                   
          electromagnetic valve.  A basic understanding of the invention              
          can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 7 and 16,                 
          copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to the revised brief                 
          filed August 31, 1999 (Paper No. 36).                                       


               As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the               
          document listed below:                                                      


          Hensley                  4,610,080                     Sep. 9,              
                                                                 1986                 


               The following rejection is before us for review.                       




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