Appeal No. 96-2652
Application No. 08/329,755
Mortensen 5,444,208 Aug. 22, 1995
(filed March 29, 1993)
THE REJECTION
Claims 28, 31, 35, 38 and 40-42 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Mortensen in view of
Hunting.
Rather than reiterate the respective positions of the
examiner and the appellants in support of their respective
positions, reference is made to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 18) and the appellants' brief (Paper No. 16) and reply
brief (Paper No. 19) for the full exposition thereof.
We have carefully reviewed the appellants' invention as
described in the specification, the appealed claims, the prior
art applied by the examiner, and the respective positions
advanced by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence
of this review, we make the determinations which follow.
We find that Mortensen discloses an apparatus for
accelerating a projectile 16 in a barrel which includes an
electric discharge device with an electrode 34 for
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