Appeal No. 97-0695
Application No. 08/273,466
Claims 3, 7 and 8
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 3, 7 and 8
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Janssen.
Claim 3 is drawn to a method of fabricating a plurality
of handles including, inter alia, the steps of (1) forming a
plurality of strips shaped as right, regular parallelopipeds,
and
(2) forming barbs on each of the strips. Since the barbs of
step (2) are formed on each of the strips formed in step (1),
the steps must occur in the order specified in the claim.
Thus, claim 3 requires forming a plurality of strips shaped as
right, regular parallelopipeds, and then forming barbs on each
of the strips.
Janssen discloses an applicator for paint and other
fluids. Figure 1 of Janssen shows an exploded perspective
view of a preferred brush 10 with the handle member 14 removed
from the cavity 42 of the head member 30. The handle member
14 comprises a gripping section 16, a head mounting section
20, and a circumferential skirt 22 which separates gripping
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