Appeal No. 96-1604
Application 08/272,906
The references of record relied upon by the examiner
in rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Sherk 1,511,915 Oct. 14, 1924
Carpenter, Sr. (Carpenter) 3,042,288 July 3, 1962
Sproull et al. (Sproull) 3,291,362 Dec. 13, 1966
Hancock 3,854,269 Dec. 17, 1974
DeForest et al. (DeForest) 4,157,147 June 5, 1979
Linnemann 4,881,683 Nov. 21, 1989
Claims 6 through 9 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Sproull in view of Carpenter,
Hancock and Sherk.
Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Sproull in view of Carpenter, Hancock, Sherk
and DeForest.
Claims 14 and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Sproull in view of Carpenter, Hancock,
Sherk and Linnemann.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of the
above rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the
examiner and the appellant, we refer to pages 3 through 8 of the
examiner's answer and to pages 3 through 9 of the appellant's
brief for the full exposition thereof.
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