Appeal No. 1999-0082
Application No. 08/655,022
under 37 CFR §1.116, the appellants canceled claims 1-8 and
entered claim 9, which is the only claim before us on appeal
(see Paper No. 9).
The appellants’ invention is directed to a fluid control
device having a replaceable regulator. The claims on appeal
have been reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Ohmi et al. (Ohmi) 5,366,261 Nov. 22, 1994
Abstract of 6241400 Aug. 30, 1994
Japanese Patent
(Yuichi)
THE REJECTION
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Yuichi in view of Ohmi.
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
appellants regarding the rejection, we make reference to the
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