Appeal No. 2001-0025
Application No. 08/751,980
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 9, a copy of which
appears in the appendix to the brief (Paper No. 28).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Stehle 3,809,192 May 7, 1974
Goodyear 1,433,090 Apr. 22, 1976
(Great Britain)
Oyano1 58[1983]-13237 Jan. 25, 1983
(Japan)2 (JP ‘237)
The following rejections are before us for review.
1 The examiner refers to this document as JP ‘237, while
appellant uses the first name of the inventor, i.e., Sadataka,
to identify this reference. We shall refer to this Japanese
reference as JP ‘237.
2 Our understanding of this document is derived from a
reading of a translation thereof prepared in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, which translation we refer to in
the opinion set forth below. A copy of this translation is
appended to this opinion. We are aware of a translation of
this document provided by appellant (Paper No. 23).
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