Appeal No. 2005-2632 2
Application No. 09/768,736
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable Volz et al. in view of
Puschmerat (US 5,950,538), and claims 7, 9 through 13 and 15
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Richards (US
6,050,185) in view of John et al. (answer, page 3). Only the
examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 6, 8, 14 and 16 through
20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based on the combined teachings of
Richards and John et al. remains on appeal. In light of the
foregoing, the appeal as to claims 7, 9 through 13 and 15 is
dismissed.
As noted on page 1 of the specification, appellants’
invention relates generally to printing presses and more
particularly to a device and method for driving rolls and
cylinders in an offset printing press. Independent claims 1 and
14 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy
of those claims can be found in Appendix A of appellants’
corrected brief.1
1 A review of independent claim 14 reveals several
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