Appeal No. 98-1848
Application 08/500,781
Cole 2,159,699 Dec. 11, 1985
(British Patent Document)
The following rejections under 35 U. S. C. § 103 are
before us for review:3
(1) claims 3, 4, 21, and 22, unpatentable over Cole in view
of Beck and Cabot; and
(2) claims 5, 7 to 9, 11 to 13, and 15, unpatentable over
Cole in view of Beck and Cabot, and further in view of Dahm,
Guerret and Gueret.
The rejections are explained in the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 17, mailed November 4, 1997).
The opposing viewpoints of appellant are set forth in the
brief (Paper No. 15, filed July 14, 1997).
3In the final rejection, claim 21 was also rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite.
In that the answer does not contain a restatement of this
rejection, we assume it to have been withdrawn by the
examiner. See Ex parte Emm, 118 USPQ 180, 181 (Bd. App.
1957).
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