Appeal No. 1999-0215
Application No. 08/530,282
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 12).
As evidence of anticipation, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
McCutchan, Jr. 4,468,210 Aug.
28, 1984
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by McCutchan, Jr.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 13), while the complete statement of appellants’
argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos.
12 and 14).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the anticipation issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellants’ specification and claims, the applied
patent, and the respective viewpoints of appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
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