Appeal No. 1999-1895
Application No. 08/363,315
Claims 1 through 8 and 13 through 15 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over De Gaudenzi.
Reference is made to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7,
mailed September 3, 1996) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 15, mailed December 9, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to appellants'
Brief (Paper No. 14, filed August 29, 1997) and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 16, filed February 9, 1998) for appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 8 and 13 through 15.
First we note that claim 15 depends from claim 12, now
considered allowable by the examiner (Answer, page 8).
Accordingly, we reverse the obviousness rejection of claim 15.
Next, we note that the examiner indicates (Answer, page
7) that the rejection of claim 9 is withdrawn because the
examiner agrees with appellants that De Gaudenzi fails to
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