Appeal No. 96-2299
Application No. 08/072,753
This is an appeal from the decision of the examiner
finally rejecting claims 7, 12, 15, 16 and 18, which are all
of the claims remaining of record in the application.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a profiling
machine. The subject matter before us on appeal is
illustrated by reference to claim 7, which has been reproduced
in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
McKinney 4,669,923 Jun. 2, 1987
Witt 4,844,135 Jul. 4, 1989
Dombrowski et al. 4,993,896 Feb. 19, 1991
(Dombrowski)
THE REJECTION2
Claims 7, 12, 15, 16 and 18 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Dombrowski in view of
McKinney or Witt.
2A rejection of claim 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) has
been withdrawn by the examiner in the Answer.
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