Appeal No. 94-4357
Application No. 07/739,050
step in the manner recited in claim 13 and its dependent
claims. We adopt appellants’ reasoning at pages 13 and 14 of
the Brief as our own.
As a final point, we advise both the examiner and
appellants to review the contents of Norwegian Patent
Application Nos. 77 1473 and 77 1474 referred to in the
Fritzvold reference before the issuance of a patent on this
application. It appears that the above-mentioned Norwegian
Patent Applications are the closest prior art. See Fritzvold,
columns 7 and 8. They may affect the patentability of the
subject matter recited in some or all of the appealed claims.
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