Appeal No. 2000-0533
Application No. 08/821,508
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a method of forming
a flared end on a fluid conduit (claims 33, 36-38 and 60) and
a method of sealingly joining two members (claims 39 and 42-
45). An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 33, which appears in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Currie 3,265,413 Aug. 9, 1966
McIntosh 2,242,831 May 20, 1941
Takikawa 5,354,107 Oct. 11, 1994
The following rejection is before us for review.2
Claims 33, 36-39, 42-45 and 60 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Takikawa in view of
McIntosh and Currie.
The copy of claim 60 in appellants' appendix is an inaccurate1
reproduction of the claim of record. In particular, in line 3, "forming"
should be "flaring"; in line 4, "an end" should be "a distal end portion"; in
line 7, "a" should be "the distal end"; and, in line 13, there should be a
comma after "conduit."
The examiner has withdrawn the rejection of the claims as being2
unpatentable over AAPA (appellants' admitted prior art) in view of McIntosh,
Takikawa and Currie (answer, page 2).
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