Appeal No. 2003-0550
Application No. 09/580,411
from the Appendix to appellant's brief, is attached to this
decision.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting appealed claim 1 is:
Carll 2,313,801 Mar. 16, 1943
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Carll. In the examiner's view (answer, page 4),
Carll discloses a die cutter apparatus with every structural
limitation of the claimed invention including: a base member
(12); at least first and second die cutter units (14) supported
by the base member, with each said die cutting unit comprising a
support member (16) carrying a steel rule die (18), and a lost
motion connection (e.g., 32 and one of 38, 42, or 44) connecting
the support member (16) to the base member (12) and permitting
relative lateral movement of each die cutter unit (14) relative
to the base member and relative to each other through a range of
360 degrees.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejection and the
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