Appeal No. 1998-1778 Page 2
Application No. 08/521,358
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the refusal of the examiner to
allow claims 1 to 9, 11 to 17 and 23-27. Claims 10 and 18-22
have been canceled. In the brief (p. 1), the appellants
withdrew the appeal with regard to claims 1 to 5, 7, 8, 11, 14
to 17 and 24. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed with
respect to claims 1 to 5, 7, 8, 11, 14 to 17 and 24. Claims
6, 9, 12, 13, 23, 25, 26 and 27 remain on appeal.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a vacuum sewer
toilet system. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 9, which
appear in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Steltz 3,474,469 Oct. 28,
1969
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