Ex parte JOHNSTONE - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1999-1764                                                        
          Application No. 08/827,544                                                  

          through 8, all of the claims remaining in the application.                  
               Appellant’s invention pertains to a mounting assembly.                 
          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 brief (Paper No. 19).                                       


               As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the               
          documents listed below:                                                     
          Wilson                   4,813,641                Mar. 21, 1989             
          Wolterstorff, Jr.             4,825,515                May   2,             
          1989                                                                        
          Irizarry                 5,649,634                Jul. 22, 1997             
          (filed Nov. 13, 1995)                                                       

               The following rejections are before us for review.                     


               Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §                    
          103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilson in view of                         
          Wolterstorff.                                                               


               Claims 6 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §                    
          103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilson in view of                         
          Wolterstorff, as applied to claims 1 through 5, further in                  
          view of Irizarry.                                                           
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