Appeal No. 96-3968
Application No. 08/117,669
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a form burster. Claims
1 and 15 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a
copy of those claims, as they appear in the appellant's brief, is
attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b)
and obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Hageman 2,513,093 June 27, 1950
Jones et al. 3,942,694 March 9, 1976
(Jones)
Gergely, Jr. et al. 5,060,838 Oct. 29, 1991
(Gergely)
Nakamura et al. 5,104,022 Apr. 14, 1992
(Nakamura)
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Nakamura.
Claims 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 15 through 19 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Nakamura.
Claims 6 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Nakamura in view of Jones.
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