Appeal No. 96-3011
Application No. 08/165,313
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1 through 14, which are all of the claims
pending in the application.
Appellants’ invention is directed to an oil cooler for
motor vehicles. Independent claims 1 and 8 are representative
of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims,
reproduced from the Appendix to appellants’ brief, is attached
to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Burne et al. (Burne) 3,339,260 Sep. 5, 1967
Roberts 3,664,928 May 23, 1972
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Burne in view of Roberts.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of
the above-noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints
advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding the
rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
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