Appeal No. 97-0081
Application No. 08/226,532
The appellants' invention relates to mounting hardware for a
toolbar. Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of claim 1, as it appears in the appellants'
brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Robinson 823,292 June 12, 1906
Zvanut et al. (Zvanut) 4,909,463 March 20, 1990
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as2
being unpatentable over Zvanut in view of Robinson.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellants regarding the § 103 rejection, we
make reference to the final rejection (Paper No. 5, mailed
September 28, 1995) and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 12,
mailed June 11, 1996) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the appellants' brief (Paper No.
11, filed April 29, 1996) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
2It appears to us that claim 10 should be dependent on
claim 8 or 9 to provide proper antecedent basis for the second
circular aperture and the first circular aperture.
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