Appeal No. 2000-1637 Page 2
Application No. 09/002,808
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a dump valve
operative to immediately substantially reduce or eliminate
pressurized flow at the outlet to prevent damage or injury
without shutting down the source of pressurized fluid
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is
set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
DeLorenzo 3,563,508 Feb.
16, 1971
Eckerlin 3,633,619 Jan. 11,
1972
Claims 1 to 5 and 7 to 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Eckerlin in view of
DeLorenzo.
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. 12,
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