Appeal No. 1998-2911
Application 08/314,345
U.S. Patent No. 4,549,860 to Yakich in view of U.S.
Patent No. 4,559,038 to Berg et al.
B. On April 7, 1992, the examiner held an interview with
one of the applicants, Mr. Danby, and his counsel,
Mr. Kuesters. The results of the interview were
recorded by the examiner in an interview summary
(Paper No. 18) which states in pertinent part
that
Claim 1 is to be amended to add that members are
arranged for controlled relative movement in
oppossed [sic, opposed] directions tranverse
[sic, transverse] to the tube. . . . Claim
language read over Yasich [sic, Yakich] and
German reference. Amendment will be entered.[4]
C. On April 8, 1992, applicants’ counsel filed a paper
(Paper No. 19) amending claims 1 and 2 to specify, inter
alia, that the deforming means of the claimed pumping
4 The examiner identified the German reference elsewhere
in the interview summary as German document 2939212 which had
been cited in an information disclosure statement filed March
10, 1992 (Paper No. 17).
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