Appeal No. 2000-0653 Application No. 08/960,433 a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 12). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the documents listed below: McQuaid et al. (McQuaid) 1,469,424 Oct. 2, 1923 Kameyama 5,277,499 Jan. 11, 1994 The following rejection is before us for review. Claims 1, 2, 6, and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Kameyama in view of McQuaid. The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to the argument presented by appellant appears in the final rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 6 and 13), while the complete statement of appellant's argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 12 and 14). 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007