Appeal No. 2005-1093 Page 2
Application No. 10/058,200
The appellants' invention relates to a method and arrangement for producing
compound filters for products in the tobacco processing industry (specification, p. 1). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Reynolds UK 1,212,963 Nov. 18, 1970
The rejection
Claims 90 to 96, 98 to101, 104 to 109, 112, 113, 115 to117 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102 or 103 as being unpatentable over Reynolds.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(mailed August 27, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to the brief (filed July 28, 2004) and reply brief (filed October 26, 2004) for
the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
1 The examiner has withdrawn the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph of claims 67 to
89.
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