Appeal No. 2002-0912 Page 2
Application No. 08/913,187
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a guide bush for holding a workpiece
rotatably and axially slidable on an automatic lathe. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Toshimitsu et al. (Toshimitsu) 5,366,298 Nov. 22, 1994
Okada et al. (Okada) 5,455,081 Oct. 3, 1995
Japanese Patent Publication (Yoshino) 06060404 May 28, 19871
Japanese Patent Publication (Yamada) 4-141303 May 14, 19921
Claims 1, 4 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Yamada in view of Toshimitsu.
Claims 3 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Yamada in view of Toshimitsu and Yoshino.
Claim 7 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Yamada in view of Toshimitsu and Okada.
Claims 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Yamada in view of Toshimitsu, Okada and Yoshino.
1Our understanding of this foreign language reference was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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