Appeal No. 96-2640
Application No. 08/068,273
consider Nerwin to be inapplicable here and find no suggestion
in Copeland that the clamping and compression functions of
the apparatus be made independently operable.
We will accordingly not sustain rejection (3).
Rejection (4)
This rejection will not be sustained, since the
combination of Copeland and PAT does not overcome the
deficiencies of each as discussed above with regard to
rejections (2) and (3).
Rejections (5) to (8)
The secondary references applied in these rejections do
not render obvious what we have found above to be lacking in
Copeland and/or PAT. Rejections (5) to (8) will therefore not
be sustained.
Rejection Under 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b), claims 1, 2 and 5 are
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Marechal
alone, or in view of Hosoe. Marechal discloses a glass
compression molding apparatus having a first molding die with
a cylindrical core 1, a second molding die having a hollow
cylinder 3 and core 2, both cores fitting within the cylinder,
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