Appeal No. 2000-1715 Page 2
Application No. 08/925,053
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a compressible syringe. The claims on appeal have
been reproduced in the appendix to the appellants’ Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Drewe 3,473,524 Oct. 21, 1969
Sneider 4,262,669 Apr. 21, 1981
Claims 13-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Drewe
in view of Sneider.1
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. 18) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 17) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
1A rejection of claims 13-15 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, was
withdrawn by the examiner in the Answer (page 4).
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