Appeal No. 1998-0187
Application No. 08/247,518
main and Reply Briefs (Paper Nos. 34 and 37, filed February
19, 1997 and July 18, 1997, respectively).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellant’s specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made the
determinations which follow.
Rejection (1)
As a preliminary matter, we note that on pages 3 and 4 of
the main brief, the appellant has indicated that claims 8-10
and 12-14 stand or fall together as one group. In accordance
with
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we select claim 8 as being
representative.
Independent claim 8 is directed to a process for making a
ceramic cup having a body and a handle, comprising injection
molding the body and the handle together in a single injection
molding operation to form an integral, one-piece, unitary
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