Appeal No. 1998-2083
Application No. 08/471,584
if rewritten in independent form including all of the
limitations
of the base claim and any intervening claims.1
We REVERSE.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a refuse
loading assembly for a refuse collection vehicle (brief, page
4). Claim 17 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal
and is reproduced in “Appendix A” attached to the brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Holtkamp 3,338,438 Aug. 29,
1967
Worthington 4,227,849 Oct. 14,
1980
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,470,187 Nov. 28,
1995
(filed Sep. 09,
1993)
Claims 78 through 81 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
1Claims 17, 19, 20, 75, 78, 79 and 81 were amended subsequent to the
final rejection. See Paper No. 14. As a result, the 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, rejection of claims 17, 19, 20 and 75 through 77 made in the final
rejection has been withdrawn. See Paper No. 15.
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