Appeal No. 2001-0267
Application No. 08/980,352
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 13).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Rider 3,780,416 Dec. 25, 1973
Hooven 5,518,164 May 21, 1996
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 through 3 and 5 through 8 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Rider in view of
Hooven.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 14), while the complete statement of appellants’
argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos.
13 and 16).
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