Appeal No. 1998-2775
Application 08/574,544
engagable with a first stopper portion (9) to limit rotation
of the lower leg portion in one direction to a standing
position. The third stopper portion is also engagable with
a second stopper portion (10) to limit rotation of the lower
leg portion in the opposite direction to a kneeling
position.
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellants’ brief.
The following reference is relied upon by the examiner
in support of his rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 and
35 U.S.C. § 102(b):
Lewis 278,566 May 29, 1883
Appealed claims 6 through 10 stand rejected under
portion. In contrast, claim 6 recites that the bearing part is embedded
in the lower leg portion as if the entire bearing part is received in an
aperture in the lower leg portion. Consistent with appellants’ original
disclosure we have therefore interpreted clause “c” of claim 6 as
meaning that the bearing part has a portion embedded in the lower leg
portion. Correction of this informality is in order upon return of this
application to the examiner.
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