Appeal No. 1996-1456
Application No. 08/059,840
British Patent Document
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1 through 4 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Hitachi Maxell in view of
Kato.
Claims 8, 9, 12 through 14, 21, 22 and 24 through 26 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Hitachi Maxell in view of Kato and Kita.
Claims 10, 11, 15 through 20 and 23 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Hitachi Maxell in view
of Kato, Kita and Young.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 212 and 23) and to the examiner’s main and
supplemental answers (Paper Nos. 18 and 24) for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to the
merits of these rejections.3
2 Paper No. 21 is the second revised main brief submitted by
the appellants.
3 As a result of the amendments made subsequent to final
rejection (see n.1, supra), the examiner has (1) withdrawn the 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of claims 21, 23 and 26
which was set forth in the final rejection (see the advisory
action dated December 1, 1994, Paper No. 12) and (2) withdrawn
the Young reference from the 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of
claims 22, 24 and 25 which was set forth in the final rejection
(see pages 2 and 8 in the main answer).
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