Appeal No. 98-1261
Application 08/435,869
regard as the invention.
Claims 17-21 and 23-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
French ‘008 in view of either German ‘318 or Mabuchi, taken further with French ‘421.
The rejections are explained in Paper No. 15 (the final rejection).
The viewpoints of the appellants with regard to the positions taken by the examiner are set forth
in the Brief and the Reply Brief.
OPINION
The Rejection Under 35 U.S.C. § 112, Second Paragraph
Notwithstanding the entry of amendments after the final rejection, errors remain uncorrected in
claims 21, 23 and 26. In lines 3 and 4 of claim 21, "said wire brushes" has no antecedent basis. The
same is true of "said wire brush" in line 2 of claim 23. Also, on page 2 of Paper No. 15 the examiner
raised a question about the meaning of the phrases "sets of contact members" and "integral metal fingers
in claim 26." This has not been responded to by the appellants.
In view of the above, we shall sustain the Section 112, rejection of claims 21, 23, 26 and 27.
The Rejection Under 35 U.S.C. § 103
This rejection actually involves two combinations of references, considered in the alternative.
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