Appeal No. 97-3199
Application No. 08/273,767
Judges.
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 4, 6 and 8. Claims 5, 7, and 9 through 11 are
objected to by the examiner as being dependent upon a rejected
base claim, but would be allowable according to the examiner
if rewritten in independent form including all of the
limitations
of the base claim and any intervening claims. These claims
constitute all of the claims in the application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a combined mixing and
deflection unit. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which
appears in the appendix to the main brief (Paper No. 14).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Gilles et al. (Gilles) 3,831,350 Aug. 27, 1974
Knief 4,786,185 Nov. 22, 1988
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
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