Appeal No. 95-4344
Application 08/087,030
pending in the application.2
The invention relates to a flexible crush-resistant conduit for deep undersea applications. A
copy of the claims on appeal appears in the appendix to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 30).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Fulton 1,476,704 Dec. 11, 1923
Collom 2,056,840 Oct. 6, 1936
Chicago Metal Hose Corporation Catalog, pages 25, 31, 34 and 38 (1940)
Claims 18, 19 and 21 through 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Collom in view of the Chicago Metal Hose Corporation Catalog, and claim 20 stands rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Collom in view of the Chicago Metal Hose
Corporation Catalog and Fulton.3
Reference is made to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 30) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper
No. 31) for the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to the merits of
these rejections.
Collom, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an exhaust pipe for an internal combustion
2Claim 18 has been amended subsequent to final rejection.
3The examiner has withdrawn the 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of claims 18
through 31 which was set forth in the final rejection (see the advisory action dated October 18, 1994,
Paper No. 29)).
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