Appeal No. 97-2644
Application 08/381,531
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5 through 13 and 15
through 22. Claim 23, the only other claim remaining in the
application, stands allowed. Claims 4 and 14 have been can-
celed. On page 3 of the examiner's answer (Paper No. 16), it
is indicated that the rejection of the claims on appeal under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, has been withdrawn and that
claims 12 and 22 are now objected to, but would be allowable
if rewritten in independent form including all the limitations
of the base claim and any intervening claims. Accordingly,
only claims 1 through 3, 5 through 11, 13 and 15 through 21
remain for our consideration on appeal.
Appellant's invention relates to a connecting pin
adapted for use in conjunction with belt fasteners of the type
having intermeshed coupling eyelets. See, for example, Figure
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