Appeal No. 2000-1475 Page 3
Application No. 08/844,016
Claims 1 to 4 and 11 to 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Rivard. As stated on page 3
of the answer (Paper No. 17, mailed February 25, 2000), this2
rejection is set forth in the first Office action (Paper No.
6, mailed September 25, 1998). With regard to this rejection,
the first Office action (p. 2) provided "[n]ote pressure
sensors 29, 31, flow rate determination means (see column 7,
lines 1-18) and driver's wish valve determining mean 125 (see
claim 4)."
2The answer was mailed to ROBERT S. M. GORMAN, FULBRIGHT
& JAWORSKI, L.L.P., 666 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10103.
This correspondence address replaced the original
correspondence address of FELFE & LYNCH, 805 THIRD AVENUE, NEW
YORK, NY 10022 due to a change of address (Paper No. 9, filed
June 21, 1999) signed by Robert S. M. Gorman, Reg. No. 41,
790. A change of correspondence address may not be signed by
an attorney or agent not of record. 37 CFR § 1.33(a); MPEP §§
405 & 601.03. Our review of the record fails to reveal that
Robert S. M. Gorman is an attorney or agent of record.
Accordingly, the examiner should determine the correct
correspondence address. In view of the possible error in
changing the correspondence address, we will mail this
decision to both addresses.
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