Appeal No. 2001-1275 Page 2
Application No. 09/128,120
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a conveyor section for supporting a conveyor
belt. 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:
Baker 2,815,252 Dec. 3, 1957
Fiedler 3,711,090 Jan. 16, 1973
German Offenlegungsschrift 1 3518134 Nov. 11, 1986
Claims 1-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
German reference in view of Baker or Fiedler.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 12) and the final rejection (Paper No. 7) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the Brief (Paper No. 11) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 13) for
the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
1Our understanding of this reference was obtained from a PTO translation, a copy of which is
enclosed.
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