Appeal No. 1999-1480
Application No. 08/523,330
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
McRae et al. (McRae) 4,035,865 July 19, 1977
Thomas 4,312,200 Jan. 26, 1982
Schmalz, Jr. (Schmalz) 4,768,362 Sept. 6, 1988
Taylor 4,910,983 Mar. 27, 1990
Linsalato et al. (Linsalato) 5,435,160 July 25,
1995
(filed June 28, 1993)
Claim 66 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as containing subject matter which was not
described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably
convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor,
at the time the application was filed, had possession of the
claimed invention. According to the examiner “[t]he
specification fails to reasonably convey to one skilled in the
art that, at the time the application was filed, Appellant had
possession of a key and handle apparatus wherein the key is
permanently and thermo-expansively bonded to the handle.”
Claims 52 and 55 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over McRae in view of Taylor.
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