Appeal No. 97-1086
Application 08/326,604
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 13, which are all of the
claims pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a linear guideway
arrangement for low friction movement of a structure (load)
supported thereon along a linear path. Claims 1 and 3 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims, as they appear in the Appendix to appellants'
brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by
the examiner as evidence of obviousness of the claimed subject
matter are:
Neighbour 2,525,712 Oct. 10,
1950
Gallone et al. (Gallone) 4,623,201 Nov. 18,
1986
Isert 3,013,410 Oct. 8,
1991
(German Patent)2
2A translation of this foreign language document prepared
by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is attached to this
2
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