Appeal No. 2002-0263 Application No. 09/377533 reading of exemplary claim 6, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 10). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the documents listed below: Weston et al. 636,598 Nov. 7, 1899 (Weston) Goda et al. 3,327,904 Jun. 27, 1967 (Goda) Dempsey 5,287,994 Feb. 22, 1994 The following rejection is before us for review. Claims 6 through 9 and 11 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Goda in view of Weston and Dempsey. The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007