Appeal No. 97-2645
Application 08/448,638
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1, 2 and 6 through 8. Claims 3, 4,
5, 9 and 10, the only other claims remaining in the applica-
tion, stand allowed.
Appellants’ invention relates to a pressure plate
for use in a friction clutch. Independent claim 1 is repre-
sentative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of that
claim may be found in Appendix A of appellants’ brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon
by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-210620 Aug. 24,
1989
(Japanese ‘620)
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