Appeal No. 2002-1443 Page 2
Application No. 09/251,833
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a griddle plate with an infrared heating
element. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 13, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Person 1,051,967 Feb. 4, 1913
McWilliams et al. (McWilliams) 3,833,793 Sep. 3, 1974
Schreder 4,788,414 Nov. 29, 1988
Payne 4,816,647 Mar. 28, 1989
Adamson et al. (Adamson) Re. 32,994 Jul. 25, 1989
Claims 13-19, 22, 24, 25 and 27-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Adamson in view of Person and Payne.
Claims 20 and 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Adamson in view of Person, Payne and Schreder.
Claim 21 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Adamson in view of Person, Payne and McWilliams.1
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. 21) and the final rejection (Paper No. 14) for the examiner's complete
1The rejection of claims 19 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, which was set forth
in the final rejection (Paper No. 14), was not repeated in the Answer and we shall consider it as having
been withdrawn by the examiner.
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