Appeal No. 2000-0450
Application No. 09/047,048
nonelected invention, and claims 14, 18 and 19 are indicated
as being allowable, subject to being rewritten in independent
form.
The claims on appeal are drawn to an animal waterer
assembly (claims 10, 12, 13, 15 to 17 and 20) and a method for
adjusting the height of an animal waterer (claim 21). They
are reproduced
in the appendix of appellants' brief.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Matthysse 2,616,646 Nov. 4,
1952
Vik 4,348,989 Sep. 14, 1982
The appealed claims stand finally rejected on the
following grounds:
(1) Claims 10, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 20, anticipated by
Matthysse, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b);
(2) Claim 16, unpatentable over Matthysse, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a);
(3) Claim 21, anticipated by Vik, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
Rejection (1)
On pages 3 and 4 of the final rejection, supplemented by
pages 4 and 5 of the examiner's answer, the examiner sets
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