Appeal No. 1998-0484 Page 2
Application No. 08/675465
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a molten glass feeder. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the
appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Barker, Jr. (Barker) 2,075,756 Mar. 30, 1937
Kirkman et al. (Kirkman) 4,305,747 Dec. 15, 1981
Claims 1 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as
containing subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to
reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor, at the time the
application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1 and 11 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Kirkman in view of Barker.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 17) and the final rejection (Paper No. 15) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the Brief (Paper No. 16) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 18)
for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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