Appeal No. 1999-0645 Page 2
Application No. 08/799,056
and 11-15 (answer, page 4) and indicated that claims 6-9, 13
and 15 contain allowable subject matter but are objected to as
being dependent upon a rejected base claim. Accordingly, this
appeal involves only claims 1-5, 11, 12, 14 and 16.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a collapsible knob
assembly and to a retention spring for yieldably fixing a
shaft in a cavity of a knob. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1
and 11, which appear in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Keeling, Jr. (Keeling) 3,805,637 Apr. 23, 1974
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1-5, 11, 12, 14 and 16 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Keeling.
Reference is made to the brief (Paper No. 7) and the
answer (Paper No. 8) for the respective positions of the
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