Appeal No. 1997-2658
Application No. 08/478,974
the Examiner has established a prima facie case of obviousness
with respect to independent claim 1 which remains unrebutted
by any convincing arguments offered by Appellants.
Accordingly, the rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is
sustained. Since, as noted above, no separate arguments have
been made with regard to any of the dependent claims, claims
22-33 fall with claim 1 in accordance with 37 CFR §
1.192(c)(7). Thus, it follows that the decision of the
Examiner to reject claims 22-33 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 is also sustained.
In summary, we have sustained the 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejection of claims 1 and 22-33, but have not sustained the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 2-21 and 34-41.
Therefore, the Examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1-41 is
affirmed-in-part.
No time period for taking any subsequent action in
connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 CFR
§ 1.136(a).
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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