Appeal No. 2000-1482 Page 2
Application No. 08/995,706
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to wafer transfer
machines (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Yap et al. (Yap) 5,246,218 Sept. 21,
1993
H-Square Publication, 1994-1995 Edition
Claims 19 to 24 and 28 to 33 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the H-Square
Publication in view of Yap.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No.
6, mailed March 29, 1999) and the answer (Paper No. 11, mailed
December 3, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 10,
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