Ex parte LANGE et al. - Page 3




                 Appeal No. 1998-0091                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/404,054                                                                                                             

                 B.  The claims                                                                                                                         
                          Claims 3 and 5 are directed to the Figure 2 embodiment                                                                        
                 and claims 4 and 6 to the Figure 4 embodiment.  Although                                                                               
                 appellants treat claim 3 as representative (Brief at 4-5),                                                                             
                 pursuant to our authority under 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7) we are                                                                            
                 treating claim 5 as representative because it is broader than                                                                          






















                                   2No claims are directed to the embodiments of                                                                        
                 Figures 1 and 3, which omit the insulating layers of Figures 2                                                                         
                 and 4, respectively.                                                                                                                   


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