Appeal No. 1998-2001
Application No. 08/408,688
The appellant’s invention is directed to a magnetic fluid
treatment apparatus (claims 31-47) and to a method for
treating a fluid with magnetism (claims 48 and 49). The
claims on appeal have been reproduced in an appendix to the
Brief.
THE REFERENCE
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Zimmerman 4,265,755 May
5, 1981
Ambrose 5,030,344 Jul. 9,
1991
Ito 5,055,189 Oct. 8,
1991
Curtis 5,238,558 Aug. 24,
1993
THE REJECTIONS2
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
(1) Claims 31-35, 41 and 45-49 on the basis of Curtis.
2In the Answer, the examiner states that claims 31-49 are
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103, and that "[t]his rejection" is
set forth in Paper No. 18. This is in error. In fact, there
are several rejections that apply to various groupings of the
claims, and these are set forth in the final rejection, which
is Paper No. 15.
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