Appeal No. 95-4878
Application No. 08/225,087
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 3, which are
the only claims in this application.
According to appellants, the invention is directed to a
two-platen, mold-clamping apparatus requiring neither tie bars
nor rear platen (Brief, page 2). Appellants also state that
the rejected claims stand or fall together (Id.).
Accordingly, we select independent claim 1 from the grouping
of claims and decide the appeal as to the ground of rejection
on the basis of this claim alone. See 37 CFR §
1.192(c)(7)(1995). Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of claim 1 is attached as an
Appendix to this decision.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Inaba 4,781,568 Nov. 1, 1988
(§ 102(e) date of Oct. 21, 1986)
Bluml et al. (Bluml) 5,110,283 May 5, 1992
(U.S. filing date of Nov. 27, 1989)2
Bluml et al. (WO ‘256) WO 88/09256 Dec. 1, 1988
2At issue in this decision is the § 102(e) date of this
reference.
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