Appeal No. 98-3125
Application Nos. 08/294,730, 90/003,655, 90/003,826 and
90/004,552
than that seen or disclosed in Sepling and not obvious
therefrom. Accordingly, the rejection of claim 16, and the
claims which depend therefrom, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 will not
be sustained.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new ground of rejection against claim 5 on appeal.
Claim 5 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite. As noted in footnote 2 above,
there is no proper antecedent basis in claim 5, or in claim 1,
from which claim 5 depends, for "said low friction region" set
forth in line 5 of claim 5.
Since our reasons for affirming the rejection of claims 1
and 6 on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are substantially
different than those put forth by the examiner, we also
designate our affirmance of claims 1 and 6 as a new ground of
rejection.
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