Appeal No. 2004-1796 Page 2
Application No. 09/682,167
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a rocket. 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:
Johnson et al. (Johnson) 5,707,270 Jan. 13, 1998
Japanese Patent Document1 H8-136198 May 31, 1996
(Kawasaki)
Centuri Engineering Company Technical Information Report 33, “Calculating The Center
Of Pressure Of A Model Rocket,” pages 1-38, 1970 (Barrowman)
AVI astroport LINAEUS GIGANTUS flyer and instruction brochure, 1976 (LG)
Claims 1-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
the applicants regard as the invention.
Claims 1-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
LG in view of Barrowman and Johnson.
Claims 1-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
LG in view of Barrowman and Kawasaki.
1Our understanding of this foreign language document was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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