Appeal No. 2000-0182 Page 2
Application No. 08/831,327
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a grasping forceps for
an endoscope. A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in
the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art of record relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims is:
Petruzzi 4,655,219 April 7, 1987
In addition, the examiner also relied upon the appellants'
admission of prior art (specification, pages 1 to 6; Figures 1A,
1B and 2) relating to a grasping forceps for an endoscope
(Admitted Prior Art).
Claims 1, 3/1, 4/1, 10/1, 11/1, 12/1 and 22 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the Admitted
Prior Art in view of Petruzzi.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 32, mailed
January 21, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 31, filed
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