Appeal No. 1999-1170 Page 2
Application No. 08/801,872
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a precompressed radially soft drive coupling
that damps vibrations. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Eksergian 1,868,818 Jul. 26, 1932
Schaefer 4,376,593 Mar. 15, 1983
The acknowledged prior art as set forth by the appellant in Figure 3 of the drawings and
described on page 4 of the specification.
Claims 1, 2, 6-15 and 18-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over the acknowledged prior art in view of Eksergian.
Claims 4, 5, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over the acknowledged prior art in view of Eksergian and Schaefer.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No.13) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the
Supplemental Brief (Paper No. 12) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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