Appeal No. 1998-3018
Application 08/457,328
Justus 4,086,130 Apr. 25, 1978
Stotz 4,384,922 May 24, 1983
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3 through 5, 8, 9, 11 through 14 and 16 through
19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Beck in view of Booth and Stotz.3
Claims 6 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Beck in view of Booth, Stotz and
Schmaeng.
Claims 10 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Beck in view of Booth, Stotz, Justus
and Schacht.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 17 and 21) and to the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 19) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
3The record indicates that the inclusion of U.S. Patent
No. 5,466,340 to Begemann et al. in the statement of this
rejection in the final rejection (Paper No. 11) and the
omission of claims 12 through 14 and 17 through 19 from the
restatement of the rejection in the answer (Paper No. 19) were
inadvertent errors on the part of the examiner.
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