Appeal No. 98-2186 Application No. 08/517,946 This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 15, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Appellant’s invention relates to an apparatus and method for conditioning air within the enclosed space of a building. Independent claims 1 and 9 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in the Appendix to appellant’s brief. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Watkins 3,173,353 Mar. 16, 1965 Sassmann 4,292,927 Oct. 6, 1981 Lestage 5,092,520 Mar. 3, 1992 An additional prior art reference of record in the present application relied upon by this panel of the Board in a new ground of rejection entered pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b) is: 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007