Appeal No. 2006-0600 2
Application No. 10/163,249
out of, or off of, the bushing. Independent claims 1, 12, 25 and
28 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims can be found in Appendix A of appellant’s brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner
in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Dawda et al. 5,941,511 Aug. 24, 1999
(Dawda)
Overby 6,015,158 Jan. 18, 2000
Cummings et al. 6,364,296 Apr. 2, 2002
(Cummings)
McLaughlin et al. 6,430,774 Aug. 13, 2002
(McLaughlin)
Claims 1 through 4, 6, 7 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Overby in view of Dawda and
Cummings.
Claims 12 through 15, 17, 18 and 20 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Dawda in view of
Cummings.
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