Appeal No. 2002-1720 Page 6
Application No. 09/100,494
of claim 11, as well as claims 12-14, 17, 26-29 and 31 which depend from claim 11, is
reversed.
Wixson, relied upon by the examiner for its teaching of lawn mower blades
formed of resilient wire material such as spring steel or the like (column 1, lines 64-65),
with the inherent resiliency of the wire material providing a whipping action which
increases cutting efficiency while simultaneously permitting the blade member to bend
or flex in the event it contacts a rock or the foot or shoe of the operator (column 2, lines
30-35), provides no cure for the above-noted deficiency of the combination of Lee and
Fisher. It thus follows that the rejection of claims 15, 20-25, 30, 32 and 33, which
depend from claim 11, is also reversed.
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