Appeal No. 2002-0936
Application 09/946,920
standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of independent claims 22
and 25, and dependent claims 4, 13 through 15, 17, 23 and 24, as
being unpatentable over Araki.
IV. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 through 6,
10 and 25 as being anticipated by Nelson
Nelson discloses a cake knife/server. Figure 1 of the
reference shows a human hand manipulating this device to cut and
serve a piece of cake. In short, the examiner’s determination
that this drawing illustrates “a human wristed robot” (answer,
page 4) meeting all of the robot apparatus limitations in
independent claims 1 and 25 is completely without merit.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) rejection of independent claims 1 and 25, and dependent
claims 2, 4 through 6 and 10, as being anticipated by Nelson.
SUMMARY
The decision of the examiner to reject claims 1, 2 and 4
through 25 is reversed.
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