Appeal No. 98-1640 Application 08/535,850 application. Appellants’ invention pertains to a feed nozzle assembly. A basic understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 11, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the amended appeal brief (Paper No. 16). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the document specified below: Nielsen 5,174,889 Dec. 29, 1992 The following rejection is before us for review. Claims 1, 11 through 17, and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Nielsen. The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007