Appeal No. 2002-2065 Page 2
Application No. 09/398,688
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a vessel of the type used to contain liquids.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 16,
which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
UK Patent Application (GB 032) 2001032 Jan. 24, 1979
German Patent Publication1 (GE 085) 3937085 May 10, 1990
European Patent Application (EP 817) 0614817A1 Sep. 14, 1994
Claims 2 and 5-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over GB 032 in view of GE 085 or EP 817.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 14) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Brief (Paper No. 13) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 15) for the appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
1Our understanding of this foreign language document was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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