Appeal No. 1999-0032 Page 2
Application No. 08/525,407
The appellant’s invention is directed to a blower unit for
a convective warming system. The claims as considered on
appeal can be found in Paper Nos. 14 and 25.1
THE APPLIED REFERENCES
Guibert 4,398,535 Aug. 16,
1983
Augustine et al. 4,572,188 Feb. 25,
1986
(Augustine)
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Guibert.
Claims 1-3 and 11-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Guibert in view of Augustine.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejection and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the rejections, we make reference to the
1We note that the amendment to the claims set forth in
Paper No. 16 has not been clerically entered in the file.
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