Appeal No. 2004-1153
Application No. 09/927,140
27 and 30 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and
a copy of those claims can be found in the Appendix to
appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the claims on appeal are:
Browning 3,380,182 Apr. 30, 1968
Koon, Jr. 3,739,515 Jun. 19, 1973
Harley 5,284,401 Feb. 8, 1994
Robinson et al. 6,012,246 Jan. 11, 2000
(Robinson)
Notwithstanding the examiner's statement of the rejection of
claims 1 through 34 set forth on page 2 of the final rejection
(Paper No. 5), we share appellant's view expressed on page 4 of
the brief concerning the ISSUES for review in this appeal. As is
generally apparent from the examiner's comments on pages 2
through 5 of the final rejection, the rejections for review are
as follows:
Claims 1 through 8, 12 through 22 and 25 through 34 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Browning in view of
Harley;
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