Appeal No. 97-3707
Application 08/595,910
Norma Y. Barfield et al. appeal from the final rejection
of claims 9 through 12, all of the claims pending in the
application.2
The invention relates to "an accessory device for opening
easy-open twist-off caps on bottles" (specification, page 2).
A copy of the claims on appeal appears in the appendix to the
appellants’ brief (Paper No. 12).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Delsack 5,038,644 Aug. 13, 1991
Schultz 5,257,566 Nov. 2, 1993
Tegethoff 5,329,832 Jul. 19,
1994
Fox 2,255,082 A Oct. 28, 1992
(British Pat. Document)
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows:
a) claim 9 as being unpatentable over Fox in view of
Delsack;
2Claims 9 through 12 have been amended subsequent to
final rejection.
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