Appeal No. 2002-1969
Application No. 09/665,907
is representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
that claim can be found in the Appendix to appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Wrege 1,459,042 Jun. 19, 1923
Cordell, Jr. (Cordell) 3,191,336 Jun. 29, 1965
Root et al. (Root) 4,908,975 Mar. 20, 1990
Claims 1 and 4 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Cordell in view of Wrege.
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Cordell in view of Wrege as applied to
claim 1 above, and further in view of Root.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant
regarding those rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 5, mailed August 15, 2001) and examiner's
answer (Paper No. 8, mailed March 26, 2002) for the reasoning in
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