Appeal No. 2002-1053 Page 2
Application No. 09/702,981
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a separator device, a constant-entry device,
and/or a shaping member for use in a cushioning conversion machine or method
(specification, p. 1). 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:
Wood 1,929,087 Oct. 3, 1933
Simmons 6,155,963 Dec. 5, 2000
Claims 34 to 41 and 118 to 125 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Simmons in view of Wood.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 11, mailed February 28, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 10, filed January 15, 2002) and
reply brief (Paper No. 13, filed May 9, 2002) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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