Appeal No. 2005-0141
Application No. 09/656,683
per se as compared to narrower claims of the grouping, i.e.,
independent claim 1 (and independent claim 8) which respectively
set forth an electric motor including a bearing body and a
(metallic) coiled member. As per the request, the appeal as to
claims 12 through 14 is dismissed, and the only claims before us
for review are claims 1 through 11.1
Appellant’s invention pertains to an elongated electric
motor. A basic understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 8, respective copies of
which appear in “APPENDIX 1" of the main brief filed August 5,
2002.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Nogle 3,485,540 Dec. 23, 1969
Beavers et al. 4,119,874 Oct. 10, 1978
(Beavers)
Balsells 4,890,937 Jan. 2, 1990
Ide 5,436,515 Jul. 25, 1995
1
1 In light of the dismissal, reference to claims 12 through
14 has been removed from the statement of the examiner’s
rejections and appellant’s claim groupings, infra.
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