Appeal No. 1999-0285 Page 3
Application No. 08/697,573
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a method of lifting
a person or passenger. An understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 25, which appears
in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
O'Brien et al. (O'Brien) 3,888,463 June
10, 1975
Houle 4,971,510 Nov. 20,
1990
Claims 41 to 47 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which the appellants regard as the invention.
Claims 25 to 28, 30, 32 and 33 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over O'Brien.
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