Appeal No. 2001-2045 Page 2
Application No. 09/360,936
specifically treated in the either the final rejection or the examiner's answer (Paper No.
17, mailed December 15, 2000).
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an electrical switch. A copy of the claims
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Schooley 5,508,479 April 16, 1996
Yamamoto et al. (Yamamoto) 5,619,021 April 8, 1997
Claims 21 to 23, 31, 36 and 38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Yamamoto in view of Schooley.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the brief
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