Appeal No. 97-1426
Application 08/380,125
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claim
4, the sole claim remaining in the application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a rolling unit.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of claim 4, a copy of which appears in the Appendix
to the brief (Paper No. 9).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Matsuo et al. (Matsuo) 4,969,347 Nov. 13, 1990
Yoshihara et al. (Japan '204) 55-103204 Aug. 7, 19802
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claim 4 additionally stands rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Japan '204 in view of Matsuo.
2Our understanding of this document is derived from a
reading of a translation thereof prepared in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the translation is
appended to this opinion.
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