Appeal No. 98-1292
Application No. 08/570,835
which constitute all of the claims remaining of record in the
application.
The appellant's invention is directed to a holddown
device for use with a machine tool (claims 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14
and 20), and to a method for holding down workpieces for
operations by a machine tool (claims 15, 17 and 19). The
subject matter before us on appeal is illustrated by reference
to claim 14, which has been reproduced in an appendix to the
Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Meinel et al. 4,795,518 Jan. 3, 1989
(Meinel)
Effner 5,222,719 Jun. 29, 1993
Kitagawa 5,346,193 Sep. 13, 1994
(filed Sep. 22, 1992)
Gulden 3 208 864 Sep. 22, 1983
(German patent)
Carne (PCT) 93/22104 Nov. 11, 1993
THE REJECTION
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