Appeal No. 1998-0690
Application No. 08/562,796
control means, mounted on said bottom of said base, for generating control signals
to control said actuator means and for providing information signals to and receiving
information signals from said interactive means.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Morehouse et al. (Morehouse) 4,933,785 Jun. 12, 1990
(Filed Mar. 01, 1988)
Claims 1-5, 19, 23-25 and 28-33 stand rejected under obvious-type double
patenting over claims 1, 7-9, 14 and 16 of US Patent 5,025,335. Claims 1-5, 19, 23-25
and 28-33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Morehouse.
The examiner has further set forth an objection to claims which we will not address since
such formal matters are beyond our authority.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 48, mailed Oct. 2, 1997) for the examiner's reasoning in support of the
rejections, and to the appellant's brief (Paper No. 47, filed Jun. 20, 1997) for the
appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We note that claim 4 does not appear to be properly amended in the last sentence ending in1
“, said base,." (See amendment filed Sep. 9, 1996.)
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