Appeal No. 1999-1487
Application No. 08/591,599
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 15).
As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner
has applied the documents listed below:
Hinrichs 4,773,706 Sep. 27,
1988
Klaebel 5,261,727 Nov. 16,
1993
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 through 3 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Hinrichs.
Claims 4, 5, 10, and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Hinrichs.
Claim 6 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Hinrichs, as applied to claim 1 above,
further in view of Klaebel.
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