Appeal No. 1999-1756
Application No. 08/499,100
entry therein. In light of the examiner's comments on page 3
of the answer (Paper No. 19), we presume that the examiner has
approved entry of both amendments after final.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to seals for an exhaust
nozzle with vectoring capabilities that is movable about
multiple axes for a gas turbine engine (specification, p. 1).
Claim 1 is exemplary and is reproduced in the appendix to
appellants' first reply brief (Paper No. 20) .1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Silverwater 4,783,271 Nov. 8,
1988
Herrick et al. (Herrick) 4,836,451 Jun.
6, 1989
Bachovchin et al. (Bachovchin) 5,433,771 Jul. 18,
1995
(filed Apr. 25, 1994)
Beeman, Jr. (Beeman) 5,480,162 Jan. 2,
1996
(filed Sep. 8, 1993)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Both the appendix attached to appellants' brief (Paper No. 16) and the1
appendix filed April 20, 1998 (Paper No. 18) contained errors in the
reproduction of claim 1.
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