Ex Parte Everts et al - Page 1



                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                   Ex parte ROBERT G. EVERTS and KATSUMI KURIHARA                   
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                                Appeal No. 2006-1644                                
                             Application No. 10/666,924                             
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before OWENS, NAPPI and FETTING, Administrative Patent Judges.             
         OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This appeal is from a rejection of claims 8-19, which are             
         all of the pending claims.                                                 
                                   THE INVENTION                                    
              The appellants claim a hand held, portable power tool                 
         having a four stroke engine.  Claim 14 is illustrative:                    
              14.  A hand-held, portable, power tool adapted to be                  
         carried by an operator while in use, comprising:                           
              a frame, including a handle engageable by an operator;                
              an implement cooperating with the frame and having a                  
         rotary-driven input member,                                                
              a lightweight, four-stroke cycle, internal combustion,                
         spark-ignition engine attached to said frame wherein said engine           
         comprising:                                                                
              a lightweight engine block defining a cam housing, a crank            
         chamber and a cylindrical bore;                                            
              an intake valve and exhaust valve;                                    
              a piston slidably disposed in said cylindrical bore;                  




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