Appeal No. 2005-0352 Page 2
Application No. 09/727,134
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention is directed to a feeding and picking device for an
agricultural crop having a feeding element that has a vertical axis of rotation
(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:
Thompson 2,777,267 Jan. 15, 1957
Pottinger et al. GB 2 012 154 A July 25, 1979
(Pottinger)
Wiegert1 WO 99/03323 Jan. 28, 1999
Claims 1 to 4, 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Wiegert.
Claims 5 to 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Wiegert in view of Thompson and Pottinger.
1 In determining the teachings of Wiegert, we will rely on the translation of record provided by the
USPTO.
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