Appeal No. 2001-0610 Page 2
Application No. 08/931,932
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the
appellant's Brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Ohlson 3,425,314 Feb. 4, 1969
Claims 3-10, 16 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which the appellant regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 12, 15, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
clearly anticipated by Ohlson.
Claims 2 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Ohlson.
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. 7) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 6) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 8) for the appellant's arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
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