Appeal No. 95-4878
Application No. 08/225,087
The following facts are not contested by appellants or
the examiner. The Bluml reference is U.S.Patent No.
5,110,283, which issued on May 5, 1992, from an Application
No. 07/441,379 filed Nov. 27, 1989. Bluml claims priority
from a continuation-in-part of PCT/DE88/00304 filed on May 19,
1988. The application on appeal (Application No. 08/225,087,
filed on Apr. 8, 1994) is a continuation of Application No.
07/817,956, filed Jan. 8, 1992, which itself is a continuation
of Application No. 07/457,779, filed Jan. 11, 1990.
Application No. 07/457,779 claims priority from PCT/JP89/00679
filed on July 5, 1989, and Japanese Application 169118/1988
filed on July 7, 1988. A verified translation of this
Japanese priority document was submitted in Application No.
07/817,956, thus giving appellants an effective filing date of
July 7, 1988, under 35 U.S.C. § 119 for the claimed subject
matter. See the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP),
§ 201.15 (7th ed., July 1998). Appellants also have not
contested the examiner’s determination that the subject matter
in Bluml relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness under § 103 is found in the disclosure of
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