Appeal No. 2001-0181
Application No. 09/195,999
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 15).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Spier 3,807,062 Apr. 30,
1974
Wittmann et al. 4,907,353 Mar. 13,
1990 (Wittmann)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 and 10 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claims 1, 12 through 16, 18, and 19 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Wittmann.
Claims 10, 11, and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Wittmann, as applied above,
further in view of Spier.
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