Appeal No. 1999-2755
Application No. 08/599,105
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a method of
manufacturing a guide rail and a slide of a linear guide
device. A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellant's brief.
In addition to the applicant’s admitted prior art
(hereinafter, “AAPA”) (see the answer, page 2, citing the
specification, pages 5 and 6), the examiner relies upon the
following reference as evidence of obviousness:
Takahashi et al. (Takahashi) 5,356,255 Oct.
18, 1994
Claims 1, 5 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the AAPA in view of Takahashi. 1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 31) for
the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection,
and to the brief (Paper No. 30) for the appellant's arguments
1Rejections of claims 1, 5 and 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the AAPA in view of Iijima or Scott
et al. have been withdrawn by the examiner as indicated on
pages 2 and 4 of the answer.
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