Appeal No. 2001-1076 Page 2
Application No. 09/231,677
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to horseshoes which
attenuate vibration energy from the horseshoes to the leg of
the animal (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Coleman 28,656 June 12,
1860
Phreaner 2,705,536 April 5,
1955
Claims 1 to 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Phreaner in view of Coleman.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 9,
mailed November 24, 2000) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper
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