Appeal No. 98-0609
Application 08/490,203
coded item. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 7).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Pond 14,451 Nov. 27,
1883
Dolan et al. (Dolan) 802,800 Oct. 24, 1905
Wilbourn 2,809,458 Oct. 15, 1957
Finley 4,383,555 May 17, 1983
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1, 2, 5 through 8, and 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Finley.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Finley in view of Pond.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Finley in view of Wilbourn.
Claims 11 through 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
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