Appeal No. 1998-2727
Application 08/220,949
Grothause 4,904,992 Feb. 27, 1990
Yamasaki 4,918,438 Apr. 17, 1990
Mottier et al. (Mottier patent) 5,696,497 Dec. 9, 1997
(Mottier application) S.N. 08/220,8511
Appellants’ Admitted Prior Art (APA)
Claims 11, 12 and 18 through 21 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Yamasaki, APA,
Matsumoto and Grothause.
Claims 11 and 18 through 20 stand rejected under the
judicially created doctrine of double patenting over the
Mottier patent.
Claims 11 and 18 through 20 stand provisionally
rejected under the judicially created doctrine of double
patenting over the Mottier application.
Claims 12 and 21 stand provisionally rejected under
the judicially created doctrine of double patenting over the
Mottier application and the Mottier patent, each in view of
Matsumoto and APA.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants
1 The examiner has not indicated the series number of the
patent application in the double patenting rejection, but
series “08" has an application by the same inventive entity.
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