Appeal No. 1999-1531
Application No. 08/675,912
of exemplary claim 15, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX
to the brief (Paper No. 13).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Threefoot et al. 1,632,203 Jun. 14, 1927
(Threefoot)
Carlson 5,103,959 Apr. 14, 1992
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 11 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Threefoot in view of
Carlson.1
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 9 and 14), while the complete
statement of appellant’s argument can be found in the main and
reply briefs (Paper Nos. 13 and 20).
1Claims 11 through 15 replaced finally rejected claims 9
through 14, as indicated in the advisory action of October 20,
1998.
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