Appeal No. 97-1449
Application 08/395,214
Claims 3, 8 and 11 through 13, the only other claims
remaining in the application, have been objected to by the
examiner, apparently as containing allowable subject matter but
as being dependent upon a parent claim which has been rejected.
Appellants' invention relates to a chuck assembly for
engaging the inner surface of a substrate. Independent claim 1
is representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
that claim, as found in the Appendix to appellants' brief, is
attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
LaRue 4,168,073 Sep. 18, 1979
Petralia 5,449,182 Sep. 12, 1995
In addition, this panel of the Board relies upon the
following references of record in new grounds of rejection
entered infra:2
Phillips et al. (Phillips) 4,770,456 Sep. 13, 1988
Fukawa et al. (Fukawa) 5,282,888 Feb. 01, 1944
Both of these references were cited by the examiner in the first2
Office action mailed September 21, 1995 (Paper No. 3).
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