Appeal No. 97-0608
Application 08/287,143
subject matter as a whole to a person of ordinary skill in the
art, or any viable line of reasoning as to why such artisan
would have otherwise found the claimed subject matter to have
been obvious in light of the teachings of the applied refer-
ences, we must refuse to sustain the examiner's rejections of
claims 1
and 3 through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
In light of the foregoing, the decision of the
examiner is reversed.
Under the authority provided us by 37 CFR §
1.196(b), we enter the following new grounds of rejection
against certain of the appealed claims.
Claims 12, 13, 15, 16 and 18 are rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by MacGregor. In
MacGregor
Figure 9, there is shown a document shredding machine which
includes a rotary cutting member and a rotary anvil member
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