Appeal No. 1997-0200
Application No. 08/202,860
and equivalents thereof. Appellants, however, have pointed to
nothing specific, within the specification, that we are to
construe the claims to cover. Appellants have not directed us
to any corresponding structure within the specification to
which any of the claimed “means” refers nor have Appellants
indicated what is to be construed as “equivalents thereof” or
why the structure and steps disclosed by Lyke and Elischer may
not be considered to be “equivalent.” Accordingly, we are not
persuaded by Appellants’ Donaldson argument and, therefore,
the Examiner’s obviousness rejection of claims 33 and 38 is
sustained.
In summary, we have sustained the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 rejection of all of the claims on appeal. Therefore,
the decision of the Examiner rejecting claims 28, 33, 37, and
38 is affirmed.
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