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`APPLIC‘TBN NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`Please find below andror athehedanfliiioe communication concerning-this application or
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`Commiulomr of Patontl and 'I'rldomarks
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`tron Summary
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`Application No.
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` C Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters. prosecution as to the merits is closed
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`K Responsive to communicationisi filed on Feb 4 2000
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`in accordance with the practice under Ex parte- Ouayle. 1935 C. D. 11; £53 0.6. 213.
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`monthls]. or thirty days. whichever
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`A shortened statutory period for response to this action is set to expire
`is longer. from the mailing date oi this communication. Failure to respond within the period for response will cause the
`application to become abandoned. {35 U.S.C. § 133]. Extensions of time may be obtained under the provisions of
`37 CFR 1.136lai.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`i—ffi, 18—24: and 26-42
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`El Claimlsl 35—4!
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`EU Claimlsl 1-15: 13-24: 26-34! and 42
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`isiare allowed.
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`are subject to restriction or election requirement.
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`Application Papers
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`C] See the attached Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review. PTO-948.
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`D The drawingisl filed on
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`isiare objected to by the Examiner.
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`[I The proposed drawing correction, filed on
`CI The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
`Ci The path or declaration is objected to by the Examiner.
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`Prioritv under 35 U.S.c. 5 119
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`El Acknowledgement is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. a 119(al-ldi.
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`3 received in Application No. [Series CodelSerial Number}
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`3 received in this national stage application from the international Bureau {PCT Rule 17.2{ail.
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`[I Acknowledgement is made of a claim for domestic priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119iei.
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`Attachmenflsi
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`Cl Notice of References Cited, PTO—392
`D Information Disclosure Statementisi. PTO-1449, Paper Noisi.
`U Interview Summary. PTO-413
`CI Notice of Drafisperson's Patent Drawing Review, PTO-948
`El Notice of informal Patent Application. PTO-152
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`Office Action Summary
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`U. 3. Patent and Trademark Bflisa
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`PTO-325 (Rev. 9-95)
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`Application/Control Number: 09/229,595
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`Art Unit: 3634
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`This Ofi'iee Action is responsive to the amendment filed on January 24, 2000 and supplemental
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`to the Office Action mailed on Februaly 2, 2000.
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35
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`U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section
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`made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless --
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`the invention was patented or described'in a printed publication in this or
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`a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one
`year prior to the date of application for patent in the united States.
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`Claim 42 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (b) as being clearly
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`anticipated by Kuhar
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`‘100. Kuhar
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`‘100 disoloaes a window covering
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`including a plurality of spring drives 40 which provide the function
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`of applying internal forces to a window cover system to assist an
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`external force inoperating the window cover system.
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`Claims 35-41 are allowed.
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`Primary Examiner
`Art Unit 3634
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`DMP
`February 15. 2000
`(703)303:21sx
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