Appeal No. 2002-0694
Application No. 08/712,369
a reading of exemplary claims 1, 14, and 19, respective copies of
which appear in the "APPENDIX A" of the main brief (Paper No.
20).
As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner
has applied the documents listed below:
Slick 1,279,600 Sep. 24, 1918
Heap 4,254,714 Mar. 10, 1981
Meyer 5,157,883 Oct. 27, 1992
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1, 3 through 5, 10 through 12, 14 through 17, 29, and
31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Slick.
Claims 1, 3 through 5, 14 through 17, and 29 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Heap.
Claims 2, 13, and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Slick.
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