Appeal No. 1998-2674
Application 08/329,724
Steele et al. (Steele) 5,169,342 December 8, 1992
Matthies, Balloon Help Takes Off, Power Tools, Power
Programming, MacUser, December 1991 (5 pages, no page
numbers).
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Matthies.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Matthies.
Claims 3-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Matthies and Steele.
Claim 20 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Steele. This is a new ground of
rejection added in the Examiner's Answer.
Claim 21 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Steele. This is a new ground of
rejection added in the Examiner's Answer.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 9) and the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 17) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's position, and to
the supplemental Appeal Brief (Paper No. 16) (pages referred
to as "Br__") and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 18) (pages
referred to as "RBr__") for a statement of Appellants'
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