Appeal No. 96-2191
Application 08/395,512
the final rejection (Paper No. 22).
Appellants’ invention pertains to an apparatus and method
for heating an object by microwave radiation. An understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 12 through 14, copies of which appear in the APPENDIX
to the main brief (Paper No. 24).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Levendusky 4,560,850 Dec. 24,
1985
(Levendusky ‘850)
Levendusky 4,689,458 Aug. 25,
1987
(Levendusky ‘458)
Pomeroy et al. 4,754,111 Jun.
28, 1988
(Pomeroy)
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 2 and 5 through 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Levendusky ‘458 or Levendusky
‘850 in view of Pomeroy.
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