Appeal No. 2001-0373 Page 2 Application No. 09/122,255 BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to poppet valves in fuel supply systems (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: Sorenson 3,762,443 Oct. 2, 1973 Harris 4,580,760 Apr. 8, 1986 Claims 1 to 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Harris. Claims 1 to 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Sorenson. Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the final rejection (PaperPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007