Appeal No. 1999-1165 Page 2 Application No. 08/753,174 BACKGROUND The appellants’ invention relates to a wrench for rotating a plastic slip nut in a plumbing drain system. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the appellants’ Brief. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Vlasak et al. (Vlasak) 2,607,248 Aug. 19, 1952 Kolacinski 2,990,213 Jun. 27, 1961 Pennington 4,504,087 Mar. 12, 1985 Vollers 4,509,784 Apr. 9, 1985 Moulin 4,749,251 Jun. 7, 1988 Goss 5,279,190 Jan. 18, 1994 Gilbert, Jr. (Gilbert) 5,531,141 Jul. 2, 1996 The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. � 103: (1) Claims 1, 3-5, 8-11, 15, 17, 20 and 21 on the basis of Vollers in view of any of Moulin, Goss or Gilbert. (2) Claim 7 on the basis of the references applied against claim 1 et al. taken further in view of Kolacinski. (3) Claim 16 on the basis of the references applied against claim 1 et al. taken further in view of Vlasak. (4) Claim 18 on the basis of the references applied against claim 1 et al. taken further in view of Gilbert. Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (PaperPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007