Appeal No. 98-1354
Application 08/218,507
application, stand allowed.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a portable cutter for
cutting conduit. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 22, a copy of which
appears in the APPENDIX to the revised brief on appeal (Paper
No. 16).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
Hanaway 3,449,992 Jun. 17, 1969
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 22 through 26 and 28 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Hanaway.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 19), while the complete statement of appellants’
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