Appeal No. 96-3923
Application 08/309,790
second group;
3. method claims 15 and 17-22 stand or fall together
as a third group; and
4. device claims 16 and 23-28 stand or fall together
as a fourth group.
Accordingly, group 1 will stand or fall with representative
claim 1; group 2 will stand or fall with representative claim
8; group 3 will stand or fall with representative claim 15;
and group 4
will stand or fall with representative claim 16. See 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7).
We have carefully reviewed the appellants' invention as
described in the specification, the appealed claims, the
examiner's statement of the rejections, the prior art applied
by the examiner and the arguments advanced by the appellants
in the brief and reply brief. As a consequence of this
review, we will reverse the rejections of claims 15-28 under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first and second paragraphs and, with respect
to the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we will (1) reverse
the rejection of claims 1 and 5-7 based on the combined
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