Appeal No. 96-2247 Page 3
Application No. 08/218,488
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a marine spar platform.
A copy of claims 1 through 3 appears in the appendix to the
appellants' reply brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Tallman 3,696,325 Oct. 3, 1972
Wilde 3,717,113 Feb. 20, 1973
Every et al. (Every), Vortex-Excited Vibrations of Cylinders and
Cables and Their Suppression, Ocean Engng., Vol. 9, No. 2,
pp. 135-157 (1982)
Claims 1 through 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Wilde in view of Tallman and Every.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellants regarding the § 103 rejection, we
make reference to the examiner's answer for the examiner's
complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the
appellants' brief (Paper No. 9, filed June 30, 1995) for the
appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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