Appeal No. 1999-1051 Page 2
Application No. 08/652,740
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an apparatus for generating a spark (claims 1-3
and 6-8), a gas burning appliance (claims 9-11), and a residential gas furnace (claim 14).
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 9
and 14, which appear 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:
Lister 3,260,299 Jul. 12, 1966
Kaduki et al. (Kaduki) 4,073,611 Feb. 14, 1978
Wallace et al. (Wallace) 4,483,672 Nov. 20, 1984
Phillips et al. (Phillips) 5,409,373 Apr. 25, 1995
Morita et al. (Morita) 5,550,704 Aug. 27, 1996
Claims 1-3 and 6-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Kaduki in view of Phillips, Morita and Lister.
Claims 10 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Kaduki in view of Phillips, Morita, Lister and Wallace.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 13) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 12) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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