Appeal No. 2001-0304 Page 2
Application No. 09/168,358
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to improvements in fluid power load-clamping
systems (specification, page 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellants’ brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the appealed
claims:
Petersson et al. (Petersson) WO 79/00330 Jun. 14, 1979
(published International Application)
Nilsson 2,312,417 Oct. 29, 1997
(published UK patent application)
1
AURAMO, “Mast Centralization System For Lift Trucks” brochure (Auramo)
The following rejections are before us for review.
(1) Claim 20 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Auramo in view of Nilsson.
(2) Claim 20 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Nilsson in view of Petersson.
(3) Claim 21 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Petersson in view of Auramo.
Appellants, who filed this document with Paper No. 2, indicate in the Form PTO-1449 submitted1
therewith that the publication date of this reference is at least as early as 1996.
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