Appeal No. 2001-0472 Page 2
Application No. 09/153,951
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to tuned mass damping
devices (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Sarazin 2,225,929 Dec. 24,
1940
Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as containing subject matter which was not
described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably
convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the appellants,
at the time the application was filed, had possession of the
claimed invention.
Claims 19 to 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Sarazin.
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