Appeal No. 1997-0380
Application No. 08/368,099
view of Farrington.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and the
responses to the arguments presented by appellant appear in
the answer (Paper No. 11, mailed August 20, 1996), while the
complete
statement of appellant's arguments can be found in the main
brief (Paper No. 10, filed July 26, 1996).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellant's specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we conclude that
the
§ 103 rejections cannot be sustained.
Considering first the § 103 rejection based on
Farrington, alone, we find that Farrington discloses "a screw
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