Appeal No. 2004-1922 Page 2
Application No. 09/760,567
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a trekking stick with a shock absorber. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which appears in the appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Schwarting 619,235 Feb. 7, 1899
Hyman 3,730,544 May 1, 1973
Allsop et al. (Allsop) 4,244,602 Jan. 13, 1981
Palinkas 6,328,294 B1 Dec. 11, 2001
(filed Nov. 2, 1999)
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a):
(1) Claims 14-18 on the basis of Allsop in view of Schwarting.
(2) Claims 1-7, 13 and 19-22 on the basis of Allsop in view of Schwarting and Hyman.
(3) Claim 8 on the basis of Allsop in view of Schwarting, Hyman and Palinkas.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 15) and the final rejection (Paper No. 9) for the examiner's reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the Brief (Paper No. 14) for the appellant's arguments
thereagainst.
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