Appeal No. 97-1144
Application 08/326,608
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the refusal of the examiner to
allow claims 4 and 7 through 13. Claims 5 and 6, the only other
claims remaining in the application, stand objected to by the
examiner, but are otherwise indicated to be allowable if
rewritten in independent form.
Appellants’ invention pertains to an improvement in a
textile bobbin winding machine. An understanding of the inven-
tion can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy
of which appears in the appendix to appellants’ brief.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the patents listed below:
O’Brien 3,393,879 Jul. 23, 1968
Nel 4,716,648 Jan. 5, 1988
Prodi et al. (Prodi) 5,056,724 Oct. 15, 1991
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 7 through 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Prodi in view of Nel.
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