Appeal No. 98-0330
Application 08/256,949
application.
The appealed claims are drawn to a brake device, and a
copy of them is presented in the appendix to appellants'
brief.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Meakin 2,510,125 Jun. 06, 1950
Schneider 4,982,736 Jan. 08, 1991
Pearson EP 0 219,938 Apr. 29, 1987
(European Patent)
Claims 14, 18 to 22, 24 and 26 stand finally rejected as
unpatentable over Pearson in view of Meakin and Schneider,
under 35 USC § 103.2
The examiner takes the position that it would have been
obvious, in view of Meakin, to have utilized quick connectors
instead of the flexible hoses (215) disclosed by Pearson, and,
in view of Schneider, to have provided non-return valves
This ground of rejection was set forth in the first Office action2
(Paper No. 6) but was not explicitly repeated in the final rejection (Paper
No. 12). Nevertheless, appellants have responded to it in their brief, and it
was evidently the examiner's intention to include it in the final rejection.
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