Appeal No. 2003-0144 Page 2
Application No. 09/400,932
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to pumping hose adapters which are particularly
useful to control the velocity of concrete pumped from a truck via a boom (specification,
p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth 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:
Henderson 493,719 Mar. 21, 1893
Metzger 4,838,465 June 13, 1989
Claims 13 and 16 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Metzger in view of Henderson.
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. 27, mailed May 22, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 26, filed May 6, 2002) and reply brief (Paper
No. 28, filed July 22, 2002) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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