Appeal No. 2003-1118
Application 08/968,534
includes compressed air nozzles and vacuum ports laterally offset
from one another.
The examiner concedes that Healy’s dust collection apparatus
does not respond to the limitation in independent claim 16
requiring the step of mounting the air nozzle or nozzle means in
the center of the vacuum flow path and relies on Cothrell to cure
this shortcoming. For reasons similar to those discussed above,
however, such reliance on Cothrell is misplaced.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of claim 16 and dependent claim 17 as being
unpatentable over Healy in view of Cothrell.
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