Appeal No. 2000-2016 Page 2
Application No. 09/209,837
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a grenade launcher. Claim 1 has been
reproduced 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:
Cox 3,307,283 Mar. 7, 1967
Soussloff 4,202,644 May 13, 1980
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the
appellant regards as the invention.
Claim 1 also stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Soussloff.
Claim 1 further stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Cox in view of Soussloff.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 7) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 6) and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 8) for the appellant's arguments
thereagainst.
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