Appeal No. 1999-0931
Application 08/772,861
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1, 3 through 11, and 13 through 20 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Freeman in
view of Fischer.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the office
action dated May 8, 1998 and the answer (Paper Nos. 18 and
20), while the complete statement of appellant’s argument can
be found in the supplemental appeal brief (Paper No. 19).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellant’s specification and claims, the applied
patents, and the respective viewpoints of appellant and the2
2In our evaluation of the applied teachings, we have considered all of the
disclosure of each teaching for what it would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill
3
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