Appeal No. 98-0358
Application 08/660,719
Appellants’ invention pertains to a burner emission
device for reducing NO . An understanding of the invention
x
can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which
appears in the APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 6).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Sheets et al. 4,284,402 Aug. 18,
1981
(Sheets)
Kirkpatrick et al. 5,333,597 Aug. 02,
1994
(Kirkpatrick)
The following rejection is before us for review.2
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Sheets in view of Kirkpatrick.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
A final rejection of claims 1 through 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based2
upon a patent to Beall was expressly withdrawn by the examiner on page 3 of
the answer (Paper No. 7).
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