Appeal No. 1999-1716 Page 3
Application No. 08/888,005
Claims 13-15 and 22-28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
112, second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which the appellant regards as the invention.
Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by French Patent No. 1177883.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding them, we make reference to the Examiner’s
Answer (Paper No. 29) and to the Appellant’s Briefs (Papers No.
28 and 30).
OPINION
As disclosed, the appellant’s invention comprises an
apparatus for transmitting rotary motion which is particularly
suited to placing all three major helicopter piloting controls
(collective pitch, throttle and anti-torque) on a single
control stick. As recited in independent claim 13, the
apparatus is directed to transmitting rotary motion through a
flex point, which comprises a joint defining the flex point and
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