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-notedPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007