Appeal No. 98-1451 Page 2
Application No. 08/529,187
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an armature assembly
support pallet. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 15 and 17, which
appear in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Wilger et al. (Wilger) 3,830,488 Aug. 20, 1974
Egigian 5,529,371 June 25, 1996
(filed April 14, 1995)
Claims 1 through 17 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Wilger in view of Egigian.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 15, mailed October 27, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the appellant's
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