Appeal No. 2000-0895
Application No. 08/754,797
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a filter
assembly mounted in a bottle (claims 22 through 27, 38, 40 and
42) and to a filter assembly per se (claims 28 through 32 and
34 through 37, 39 and 41). Claims 22, 28 and 42, the only
independent claims, are illustrative of the subject matter on
appeal and are reproduced in the “Appendix” attached to the
main brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Parker 647,580 Apr. 17,
1900
Knight 3,335,917 Aug. 15,
1967
VanderBilt et al. 4,753,728 Jun. 28,
1988
(VanderBilt)
Magnusson et al. 5,273,649 Dec. 28,
1993
(Magnusson)
Claims 22 through 32 and 34 through 42 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Magnusson in view of either Parker or Knight and further in
view of VanderBilt.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and the
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