Appeal No. 2001-0036
Application 08/971,611
advisory actions mailed, respectively, on February 4, 2000
(Paper No. 14) and May 4, 2000 (Paper No. 19), the examiner
has approved entry of both of the above-noted amendments.
Accordingly, we make note that claims 2 and 4 through 19
remain for our consideration in this appeal, while the appeal
as to canceled claims 1 and 3 is dismissed.1
Appellants' invention relates to a support device for
supporting a ski boot on a ski, and more particularly to a
support device including a movable support element (e.g., 10
in Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 6) which is movable, at least in a
transverse direction, relative to a stationary support (e.g.,
9 of Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 6) and an anti-friction element (e.g.,
20 of Fig. 4) or elements (e.g., 200, 201a, 201r of Fig. 11 or
201a, 201r of Figs. 15 or 16) located between the movable
1 In reviewing the file history of this application, it
has come to our attention that claim 12 as amended in Paper
No. 18 (April 21, 2000) has been mistakenly lined through as
being replaced, when in fact the version of claim 12 as it
appears in Paper No. 13 (January 24, 2000) is the one that
should be lined through and replaced by the version of claim
12 in Paper No. 18. This mistake should be corrected during
any further prosecution of the application before the
examiner.
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