Appeal No. 04-0686 Page 2
Application No. 09/015,234
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a safety binding for affixing a ski boot to a ski.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which appears in the appendix to the Brief.
The single prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting
the appealed claims is:
Scheck et al. (Scheck) 4,593,928 June 10, 1986
Claims 1, 2 and 4-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Scheck.
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. 37) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Brief (Paper No. 36) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 38) 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 reference, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we make the determinations which follow.
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