Appeal No. 96-2741
Application 08/227,093
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
Appellants request rehearing of our decision entered
September 24, 1997 (Paper No. 33). Specifically, appellants
request rehearing of those portions of the decision sustaining
the rejections of: (1) claim 11 over Kotitalo and over
Watanabe based on the interpretation of "cradle"; (2) claim 15
over Kotitalo and over Watanabe in view of Takagi based on the
interpretation of "deflectable"; and (3) claim 11 over Umezawa
based on not giving weight to the term "members" (plural).
The request for rehearing is granted-in-part.
We refer to pages of our original decision as "D__" and
to pages of appellants' Request for Reconsideration as "RR__."
We refer to the pages of the Final Rejection as "FR__", to the
pages of the Examiner's Answer as "EA__", and to the pages of
the appeal Brief as "Br__."
OPINION
1. Claim Interpretation of "Cradle"
Appellants request that we reconsider the rejections of
claim 11 over Kotitalo and over Watanabe based on an alleged
error in our interpretation of "cradle."
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