Appeal No. 1997-1331
Application 08/289,679
have been indicated by the examiner as being allowable if
rewritten in independent form to include all the limitations
of the base claim from which they depend and any intervening
claim.
As stated on page 1 of appellants’ specification, the
present invention “relates to switches of the type which are
associated with burner control valves employed on gaseous fuel
burners utilized in cooking appliances and particularly range
top burners.” More particularly, appellants’ claims are
directed to a switch and wiring assembly for a gas burner
manifold (claims 1, 3 and 4), a method of making a switch and
wiring assembly (claims 5, 6, and 9-11), and a gas burner
manifold assembly including a plurality of switches and wires
(claims 12-14 and 16-20). A copy of both the appealed claims
and the claims indicated by the examiner as being allowable if
rewritten in independent form can be found in an appendix to
appellants’ brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Munroe 4,612,423 Sept. 16, 1986
Demi 4,342,886 Aug. 3, 1982
Ward 3,971,904 Jul. 27, 1976
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