Appeal No. 96-4084
Application 08/178,508
of expansion of dissimilar connector
material.
Independent claims 1 and 18 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in
Appendix A of appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Cressey 1,494,464 May 20, 1924
Bosse 4,170,050 Oct. 9, 1979
Claims 1 through 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Bosse.
Claim 18 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Cressey.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints
advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding the above
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 8, mailed June 26, 1996) for the examiner's reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 7,
filed March 22, 1996) for appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
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