Ex parte JADDOU - Page 2




                Appeal No. 95-4119                                                                                                            
                Application 08/155,877                                                                                                        





                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                                 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 4,                                                      
                6, 7 and 10. These claims constitute all of the claims remaining                                                              
                in the application.                                                                                                           


                                 Appellant’s invention pertains to a method of using a                                                        
                universal waving die.  An understanding of the method can be                                                                  
                derived from a reading of exemplary claim 6, a copy of which                                                                  
                appears in the appendix to appellant’s brief (Paper No. 9).                                                                   


                                 As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied                                                         
                the documents listed below:                                                                                                   
                Wuerfel                        Re 17,785          Aug. 26, 1930                                                               
                Aktiebolaget                     888,636          Jan. 31, 1962                                                               
                (Great Britain)                                                                                                               
                Sipeykin et al. (Oil)          1,523,218          Nov. 23, 1989                                                               
                (U.S.S.R.)2                                                                                                                   



                         2Our understanding of this document is derived from a                                                                
                reading of a translation thereof prepared in the United States                                                                
                Patent and Trademark Office.  A copy of the translation is                                                                    
                appended to this opinion.                                                                                                     
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