Appeal No. 98-1971
Application 08/575,125
Claims 1, 10, 19 and 21 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and copies of those claims appear in the
Appendix of appellant's brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Garelick 3,667,728 Jun. 6, 1972
Moisan 4,978,103 Dec. 18, 1990
Imbeault et al. (Imbeault) 5,299,659 Apr. 5, 1994
Vasilev 1,710,419 Feb. 7, 1992
(Russian Patent)
Claims 1, 2, 5 through 7, 10 through 15 and 19 through 24
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Garelick in view of Moisan.
Claims 4, 8, 9, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Garelick in view of Moisan as
applied above and further in view of Imbeault.
Claims 3 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Garelick in view of Moisan as applied
above and further in view of Vasilev.
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