Appeal No. 98-1350
Application No. 08/607,549
claims 16 through 18, 21, 22, 25 and 28 on appeal. Thus, the
examiner’s rejection of appellants’ claims 16 through 18, 21, 22,
25 and 28 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 will not be sustained.
In summary: we have not sustained either of the examiner’s
rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Thus, the decision of the
examiner is reversed.
Pursuant to our authority under 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter
the following new grounds of rejection.
Claims 22 through 24 and 28 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by LeVine. More specifically, we
direct attention to the embodiment of LeVine seen in Figures 7,
7A, 8 and 9, noting that the blade sharpening apparatus of this
embodiment includes (in the language of claim 22 on appeal) a
support means (79) for supporting a blade holding assembly, and a
blade sharpening member (34, 35, 41 of Fig. 1), wherein the blade
holding assembly comprises a first blade holding member having a
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