Ex parte HINKENS - Page 3




          Appeal No. 98-0585                                                          
          Application No. 08/638,526                                                  


               The rejection is explained on pages 2 and 3 of the final               
          rejection.  The arguments of the appellant and examiner in                  
          support of their respective positions may be found of pages 4-              
          6 of the brief, pages 1 and 2 of the reply brief, and pages 4               
          and 5 of the answer.                                                        


                                       OPINION                                        
               At the outset, we note that the appellant on page 4 of                 
          the brief states that the rejected claims stand or fall                     
          together.  Accordingly, claims 1-4 will stand or fall with                  
          representative claim 1.  37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7).                              
               We have carefully reviewed the appellant's invention as                
          described in the specification, the appealed claims, the prior              
          art applied by the examiner and the respective positions                    
          advanced by the appellant in the brief and the reply brief and              
          by the examiner in the answer.  As a consequence of this                    
          review, we will sustain the above-noted rejection.                          
               With respect to representative claim 1 the final                       
          rejection states that                                                       
               Sakazume discloses all the features of the                             
               applicant's invention such as a disk brake assembly                    
               comprising a rotary disk 1, a caliper having side                      
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