Appeal No. 1999-1924 Page 3
Application No. 08/486,545
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a cartridge loading
apparatus for use with a disk drive. A copy of the claims
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants'
brief.
The rejections on appeal as set forth in the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 24, mailed September 28, 1998) are : 2
1. Claims 1 and 21 to 27 stand rejected under the
judicially created doctrine of nonstatutory (i.e.,
obviousness-type) double patenting over claim 1 of U.S. Patent
No. 5,684,776, claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 5,703,857 and claim
1 of U.S. Patent No. 5,724,331 since the claims at issue are
not patentably distinct inventions from the issued claims.
2. Claims 1 and 21 to 27 stand provisionally rejected
under the judicially created doctrine of nonstatutory double
patenting over claim 1 of copending Application No.
08/482,052.
2The rejection of claim 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, set forth in the final rejection was overcome by
the appellants' amendment after final rejection as noted in
the Advisory Action of February 13, 1997 (Paper No. 14).
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