Appeal No. 2002-2341
Application 09/466,277
Claims 1 through 32, 37 through 41 and 48 through 50 have been
canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a method for assembling a
cardcage for accommodating circuit cards of electronic components
or integrated circuit packages. Independent claims 51 and 52 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims can be found in Appendix A of appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Howrilka 3,271,626 Sept. 6, 1966
Marks 3,470,420 Sept. 30, 1969
Straccia et al. (Straccia) 3,696,936 Oct. 10, 1972
DeWilde 5,202,816 Apr. 13, 1993
Watanabe et al. (Watanabe)2 04-044297A Feb. 14, 1992
(Japanese Patent)
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entered. Correction of this oversight is necessary during any
further prosecution of this application before the examiner.
2 Our understanding of this foreign language document is
based on a translation prepared by the US PTO Translations Branch
on May 30, 2002. Since it is not clear from the examiner’s
answer whether appellants’ were provided with a copy of this
translation, we have attached a copy to this decision.
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