Appeal No. 2002-0027
Application No. 08/963,812
pipes for carrying oil and/or gas. A copy of independent claims 7
and 18 on appeal can be found in Appendix A of appellant’s brief.
Representative claim 18 is reproduced below:
18. A tapping connector, comprising:
a connector body having a first end and a second end, said
first and second ends defining a bore therebetween; and
an arcuate membrane disposed within said bore between said
first and second ends, and
said membrane isolating said first end from said second end.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Vallourec 1,224,818 Feb. 5, 1962
(French Patent)
Wood et al. (Wood) 2,708,505 Aug. 31, 1978
(German Patent)
Illustration C1, cited on PTO Form-1449, submitted May 18, 1998.1
1 A copy of a translation of each of the above-noted foreign
documents prepared by or for the U.S. patent and Trademark Office
is attached to this decision.
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