Appeal No. 1999-0525
Application 08/590,859
Appellants’ invention pertains to a sealing arrangement.
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 main brief (Paper No. 20).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Alff 4,948,277 Aug.
14, 1990
Ishiguro 5,133,609 Jul. 28,
1992
Hixson, II 5,476,272 Dec. 19,
1995
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Alff in view of Hixson, II.
Claims 6 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
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