Appeal No. 96-1765
Application No. 08/078,630
Iwasawa et al. (Iwasawa ‘991) 5,151,991 Sep.
29, 1992
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Iwasawa ‘991 in view of Iwasawa ‘606.2
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that, in accordance with
appellants’ grouping of the claims at page 6 of the brief, all
claims will stand or fall together.
We have carefully reviewed the record before us,
including, inter alia, the arguments of appellants and the
examiner and the evidence provided by the applied references.
As a result of such a review, we have concluded that we will
not sustain the rejection of claims 1 through 8 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 because, in our view, the examiner has failed to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the
instant claimed subject matter.
2Rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 112 have been withdrawn by
the examiner and are not before us on appeal.
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