Appeal No. 2000-2097 Page 2
Application No. 08/852,681
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to hand tools
(specification, p. 1). 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:
Epel et al. 4,334,563 June 15, 1982
(Epel)
Cooper 4,986,147 Jan. 22, 1991
Zurbuchen et al. 5,271,300 Dec. 21, 1993
(Zurbuchen '300)
References made of record by this panel of the Board are:
Demurger 5,062,328 Nov. 5, 1991
Zurbuchen et al. 5,713,251 Feb. 3, 19981
(Zurbuchen '251)
Zurbuchen et al. 5,875,693 Mar. 2, 19992
(Zurbuchen '693)
1Effective filing date Nov. 15, 1995.
2Filing date August 9, 1996.
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