Appeal No. 1997-2818
Application No. 08/322,370
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1 through 4, 6 through 12 and 17. No
other claims are pending in the application.
Claim 4 was amended in a paper accompanying appellants’
main brief to correct a typographical error. In addition,
claims 1 and 17 were amended in a paper accompanying
appellants’ reply brief in response to a new ground of
rejection (under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph) introduced in the examiner’s answer.
The amendment to claim 1 deletes the phrase “and against” in
the passage “first means . . . for displacing its respective
one of the sheet-holding devices . . . towards and against the
other sheet-holding device . . .”
As a result of the amendment accompanying the reply
brief, the examiner withdrew the new ground of rejection. In
his answer, the examiner withdrew the final rejection of the
appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. Thus,
the only issue remaining in this appeal is the propriety of
the standing rejection of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
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