Appeal No. 2001-0484 Page 2
Application No. 09/116,409
The appellants' invention relates to an outdoor escalator
guide containing a heating cable to keep the handrail from
freezing to the handrail guide in extreme cold outdoor
conditions (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:
Saito 4,871,056 Oct. 3,
1989
Anttonen 5,014,844 May 14,
1991
Huber 5,798,038 Aug. 25,
1998
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Saito.
Claims 1 to 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Saito in view of Anttonen or Huber.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
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