Appeal No. 2001-1465 Page 2
Application No. 09/048,522
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to “an apparatus for cutting individual belts from
a belt sleeve having alternating ribs and grooves on a surface thereof to produce belts
of uniform, predetermined width and cross-sectional configuration” (specification, page
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants’
brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Spivy 4,248,110 Feb. 3, 1981
Taguchi 4,700,597 Oct. 20, 1987
Lundgren 4,833,957 May 30, 1989
Lüber 5,079,874 Jan. 14, 1992
Noé 5,381,342 Jan. 10, 1995
Aihara et al. (Aihara) 5,906,148 May 25, 19991
The following rejections are before us for review.
(1) Claims 1, 2 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Spivy in view of Noé.
(2) Claims 1, 2 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Spivy in view of Noé and Lundgren.
1 Filed Feb. 20, 1997.
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