Appeal No. 98-1196
Application 08/457,045
as being unpatentable over French Patent '045 in view of
French Patent '361 and Grund.
Reference is made to the appellant's brief (Paper No. 7)
and to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 8) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of this rejection.
French Patent '045, the examiner's primary reference,
discloses a ballpoint tip which is adapted to be mounted on a
pen
body having an ink reservoir. As shown in the drawing
figures, the tip includes an orifice with a circular rim
opening into a tubular passage, a spherical ball adjacent the
circular rim, a flow metering valve means/body defining a
plurality of axial cavities with the wall of the tubular
passage and having a substantially planar forwardly facing
surface contacting the rearwardmost surface of the ball, and
means for biasing the valve member into contact with the ball.
This fluid dispenser meets, or would have suggested, all of
the limitations in independent claim 1 except for the one
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