Appeal No. 2001-2611 Page 2
Application No. 08/566,576
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a parting or grooving insert (specification, p. 1).
A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Niemi 4,778,311 Oct. 18, 1988
Carl et al. (Carl) 4,890,961 Jan. 2, 1990
Satran 5,156,502 Oct. 20, 1992
Friedman et al. (Friedman) 5,697,271 Dec. 16, 1997
Claims 1, 3 to 9, 13 and 15 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Friedman in view of Carl and Niemi.
Claims 1, 3 to 9, 13 and 15 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Satran in view of Carl and Niemi.
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. 44, mailed March 15, 2001) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
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