Appeal No. 2003-0093 Page 2
Application No. 09/29213
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a fuel injector. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which has been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Sharpe 3,713,588 Jan. 30, 1973
Mancini et al. (Mancini) 4,798,330 Jan. 17, 1989
Russell 4,941,617 Jul. 17, 1990
Richardson 5,417,070 May 23, 1995
Prociw et al. (Prociw) 6,082,113 Jul. 4, 2000
(filed May 22, 1998)
Claims 1, 4 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Mancini.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Mancini in view of either Russell or Sharpe.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Mancini.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Mancini.1
1The grounds which form the basis of this second rejection of claim 4 differ from those applied
against claims 1, 4 and 9.
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