Appeal No. 98-1960
Application No. 08/673,921
allowable, according to the examiner, if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a vehicle seat assembly
having an armrest assembly. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of
which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 8).
As evidence, the examiner has applied the documents
listed
below:
Neale 3,166,080 Jan. 19,
1965
Ohshima et al. (Ohshima) 5,109,571 May
5, 1992
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Neale.
Claims 2 through 13 and 20 through 22 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Neale in view
of Ohshima.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer
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