No. 1998-0549 Page 2
Application No. 08/661,711
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a gasket assembly for an internal combustion
engine. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Dickson 2,679,241 May 25, 1954
Yoshino 4,799,695 Jan. 24, 1989
Matsushita et al. (Matsushito) 5,161,809 Nov. 10, 1992
Japanese Kokai 63-149479 Jun. 22, 19881
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. 25) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Brief (Paper No. 24) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we make the determinations which follow.
1Our understanding of this foreign language reference has been obtained from a PTO translation,
a copy of which is enclosed.
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