Appeal No. 1999-1499
Application No. 08/764,736
We AFFIRM-IN-PART and denominate our affirmance as a new
ground of rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a universal joint
assembly. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 11, which appear in
the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Dutkiewicz et al. 5,000,609 Mar. 19, 1991
(Dutkiewicz)
Borg-Warner Corporation 705,009 Mar. 3, 1954
(Borg-Warner)
(British Patent Specification)
Claims 1 and 3 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Borg-Warner in view of
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