Appeal No. 97-3998
Application 08/302,168
claim 24 requiring the steps of providing a housing having a
guide, positioning a strand of material against the guide and
drawing the strand through the guide while positioning the
strand against the guide.
In light of the foregoing, we shall sustain the standing
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claim 16 as being anticipated
by Pitts. We also shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) rejection of dependent claims 17, 18 and 21 through 23
since the appellant has not challenged such with any
reasonable specificity, thereby allowing these claims to stand
or fall with parent claim 16 (see In re Nielson, 816 F.2d
1567, 1572, 2 USPQ2d 1525, 1528 (Fed. Cir. 1987)). We shall
not sustain, however, the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
rejection of claim 24, or of claims
25 through 29 which depend therefrom, as being anticipated by
Pitts.
Thus, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 16
through 18 and 21 through 29 is affirmed with respect to
claims 16 through 18 and 21 through 23, and reversed with
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