Appeal No. 2000-0874 Page 3
Application No. 08/695,554
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to methods and
apparatus for fabricating sidewall elongated one-piece can
bodies from flat-rolled sheet metal (specification, p. 2). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Maeder et al. 4,289,014 Sep. 15, 1981
(Maeder)
Saunders 4,584,859 Apr. 29, 1986
Clowes 4,685,322 Aug. 11, 1987
Claims 26 to 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Clowes in view of Saunders and Maeder.
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. 15,
mailed December 18, 1998) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper
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