Appeal No. 2004-0672
Application No. 09/894,704
a plurality of first spray nozzles for receiving water from
said water source and spraying a substantially flat spray of
water in a substantially vertical plane.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner in the section 102 and section 103 rejections before us:
Yoshida et al. (Yoshida) 6,195,814 Mar. 6, 2001
Shirai et al. (Shirai) 10-028656 Feb. 3, 1998
(Japanese Patent Application Laid-open)
(Translation copy attached)
Claims 56-64 stand rejected under the first paragraph of 35
U.S.C. § 112 as containing subject matter which was not described
in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one
skilled in the art that the inventors, at the time the
application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 40, 41, 50 and 52-55 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Yoshida.
Claims 56-62 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Yoshida in view of the Japanese
reference.
As reflected on page 3 of the brief and confirmed on page 2
of the answer, independent claims 40 and 56 have been separately
grouped and argued on this appeal. However, the dependent claims
will stand or fall with their respective parent claims 40 and 56.
See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(2002).
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