Appeal No. 1997-0233 Page 2
Application No. 08/266,558
The appellants' invention relates to a vertical pressure
sealing assembly. A copy of the claims under appeal is set
forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Edin 4,757,903 July
19, 1988
Eweryd 4,826,475 May 2,
1989
Kalisiak et al. 5,169,489 Dec. 8,
1992
(Kalisiak)
Walter et al. 5,308,436 May 3,
1994
(Walter)
The sole rejection before us in this appeal is : 1
Claims 1 to 3, 5 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Eweryd in view of Edin, Walter
and Kalisiak.
1The obviousness-type double patenting rejection set
forth in the examiner's answer (Paper No. 16, mailed July 27,
1996) was withdrawn in the supplemental examiner's answer
(Paper No. 22, mailed May 5, 1999).
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