Appeal No. 1997-1117
Application No. 08/300,703
reasons, we sustain the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection
of independent claim 27 and dependent claims 28, 29, and 32
which stand of fall together with claim 27 as well as the
rejection of independent claim 33 and claims 35 and 36
dependent thereon.
As to independent claim 37, grouped separately by
Appellant,
we find Appellant’s arguments to be unpersuasive and sustain
the Examiner’s obviousness rejection of this claim as well.
In our view, Warren provides a clear disclosure of the feature
of programming and storing access codes providing for
different levels of access for different personnel (e.g.
Warren, column 5, lines 10-13, column 10, lines 11-20, column
16, lines 28-33, and column 17, lines 60-64).
Turning now to a consideration of dependent claims 30 and
31, grouped and argued separately by Appellant, we note that,
while we found Appellant’s arguments to be unpersuasive with
respect to the obviousness rejection of claims 1-9, 12, 15-29,
32, 33, and 35-37, we reach the opposite conclusion with
respect to claims 30 and 31. We agree with Appellant (Brief,
page 8) that none of the prior art references provide for the
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