Appeal No. 2001-0651
Application 08/134,187
A copy of representative claims 1, 10, 26, 61, 73 and 341, as
found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief, is attached to this
decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Copley 867 Apr. 2, 1861
Beinbrech 4,087,570 May 2, 1978
Bradshaw 4,263,734 Apr. 28, 1981
Prinz et al. (Prinz) 4,527,969 Jul. 9, 1985
Fabbiani 4,889,366 Dec. 26, 1989
Claims 1 through 5, 10, 31 through 35, 40, 73, 109, 341
through 348 and 350 through 354 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Copley in view of Bradshaw.
Claims 6, 36 and 349 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Copley in view of Bradshaw as applied
above, and further in view of Beinbrech.
Claims 7 through 9 and 37 through 39 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Copley in view of
Bradshaw as applied above, and further in view of appellants’
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