Appeal No. 2004-2173
Application No. 09/970353
drilling and oil production industry. Independent claims 1, 6
and 26 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a
copy of those claims can be found in the Appendix to appellants'
brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Bahder et al. 3,846,578 Nov. 5, 1974
(Bahder)
Morrisette et al. 4,403,110 Sep. 6, 1983
(Morrisette)
Dery et al. (Dery) 5,006,286 Apr. 9, 1991
Crawley et al. 6,442,304 Aug. 27, 2002
(Crawley)
Claims 1, 2, 5 through 14, 19 through 21, 23 and 26 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Bahder in view of Crawley.1
Claims 3, 4, 24 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Bahder in view of Crawley as
applied above and further in view of Dery.
1 Although the examiner's answer (page 3) also included
claim 27 as being subject to this rejection, it is clear from the
record of the present application that method claim 27 stands
allowed, and that the examiner's inclusion of this claim in the
above-noted rejection was in error.
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