Appeal No. 2005-0341 Page 2
Application No. 09/977,409
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a piston compressor, particularly a
hermetically enclosed refrigerant compressor (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Nikolaus 4,856,366 Aug. 15, 1989
Bushnell 6,024,548 Feb. 15, 2000
Claims 1 to 3 and 5 to 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nikolaus.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Nikolaus in view of Bushnell.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (mailed January 30, 2004) and the answer (mailed June 15, 2004) for the
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