Appeal No. 1999-0069
Application No. 08/388,741
finally rejecting claims 1-18, which constitute all of the
claims of record in the application.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a swimming
creature simulator. The claims before us on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Appeal Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
King 1,661,758 Mar. 6, 1928
Eastep 3,165,086 Jan. 12, 1965
Wood 3,874,320 Apr. 1, 1975
Kindred 4,172,427 Oct. 30, 1979
Glover (UK) 582,928 Dec. 2, 1946
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-8 and 12-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Glover in view of Eastep and Wood
or Kindred.
Claims 9-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Glover in view of Eastep and Wood or
Kindred, taken further in view of King.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
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