Appeal No. 1999-1535 Page 3
Application No. 08/752,220
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates generally to a self-
lubricating collection vehicle. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 19,
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:
Statz 4,361,367 Nov. 30,
1982
Ellingsen 4,941,671 July
17, 1990
Horning et al. 5,316,430 May
31, 1994
(Horning)
Claims 29 and 30 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.
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