Appeal No. 96-0633
Application 07/971,041
§ 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon
Ishii in view of Asano. Additionally, the examiner has
separately rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 all claims on
appeal, claims 1 to 15 and 19 to 23, in view of the collective
teachings of Ishii in view of Asano, further in view of
Esquivel.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer
for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that appellants’ summary of the
invention at pages 2 and 3 of the brief correlates certain
portions of the disclosed first embodiment to various figures
and descriptive portions of the written specification as well
as the second embodiment. As an example, appellants correlate
the disclosed first embodiment to independent claim 1 on
appeal and the disclosed second embodiment to independent
claim 4 on appeal.
Following this approach, independent claims 1, 5, 11 and 19
relate to the disclosed first embodiment, while independent
claims 4, 8 and 12 relate to the disclosed second embodiment.
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