Appeal No. 97-4048
Application 08/371,934
final rejection in a paper filed April 19, 1996 (Paper No. 8).
Claims 1 through 17 and 23 have been canceled. Claims 24
through 26, the only other claims remaining in the
application, stand allowed.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a method for
cutting a piled fabric such as carpet or carpet tiles.
Independent claims 18 and 19 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in
the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Rummer 4,041,818 Aug. 16, 1997
MacDonald 5,209,148 May 11,
1993
Claim 18 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by MacDonald.
Claim 19, 21 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Rummer.
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