Appeal No. 96-4157
Application 08/142,772
claims 4, 6 and 10 through 18, all of the claims pending in
the application. We reverse.
The invention relates to "a method of and apparatus for
installing filter cartridges into a dust collector or other
pollution control device" (specification, page 1). A copy of
the appealed claims appears in the appendix to the appellant's
brief (Paper No. 18).
The items relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Berglund 4,141,704 Feb. 27,
1979
Brunner 4,632,681 Dec. 30,
1986
The items relied upon by the appellant as evidence of
non-obviousness are:
The 37 CFR § 1.132 Declarations filed on August 1,
1994 and February 27, 1995 (Paper Nos. 8 and 12)
Claims 4, 6 and 10 through 18 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Brunner in view of
Berglund.
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