Appeal No. 1997-0276
Application No. 08/357,641
Mattice 4,955,661 Sep. 11, 1990
Boyer 736,446 Nov. 23, 19322
(French Patent)
Collins 520,500 Jan. 10, 1956
(Canadian)
THE REJECTIONS3
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Mattice in view of Collins.
Claims 7 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Mattice in view of Collins, as applied to
claims 1 through 6 above, and further in view of Sweeney
and/or Watson.
Claim 10 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Mattice in view of Boyer.
2Our understanding of the Boyer French language reference
is via an English language translation, a copy of which is
appended to our decision.
3This appeal comes to us after a remand from this Board to
the examiner for consideration of a rejection of claims under
35 U.S.C. § 251. In view of the amendments to 37 CFR § 1.175
effective Dec. 1, 1997, the examiner withdrew this ground of
rejection.
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