Appeal No. 2002-1276
Application 09/405,971
No. 14) for the respective positions of the appellants and the
examiner with regard to the merits of this rejection.
DISCUSSION
Cremonese, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
knife having a blade and a handle, wherein the handle straddles
the back (upper) edge of the blade adjacent its rearward end and
bounds the upper periphery of a finger opening in the blade.
This handle does not respond to the limitations in independent
claims 1, 10 and 18 requiring the handle to comprise a gripping
portion which encloses the fingers of the hand and prevents
contact between the fingers and the blade and between the fingers
and an insulation batt, the limitation in claim 1 requiring the
handle to extend rearwardly of the rearward end of the blade, the
limitation in claim 10 requiring the longitudinal axis of the
handle to meet the longitudinal axis of the blade at an angle so
as to allow the hand of the user to be above an insulation batt
as the blade contacts the batt along a substantial portion of the
blade, or the limitation in claim 18 requiring the gripping
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