Appeal No. 1999-0645 Page 5
Application No. 08/799,056
The shank (37) of the retention clip (35) of Keeling does
not form an enclosure or anything even close to an enclosure
and, thus, is not capable of "surrounding" a shaft, as
required by independent claims 1 and 11.
Accordingly, we cannot sustain the examiner's rejection
of claims 1 and 11, or claims 2-5, 12, 14 and 16 which depend
therefrom, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
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