Appeal No. 2000-0980
Application 08/763,733
Claims 1, 2, 6-11, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of Okada.
Claims 3-51 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Okada in view of
Iwamura.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner and the evidence
of anticipation and obviousness relied upon by the examiner as
support for the rejections. We have, likewise, reviewed and
taken into consideration, in reaching our decision, the
appellant’s arguments set forth in the briefs along with the
examiner’s rationale in support of the rejections and arguments
in rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s answer.
It is our view, after consideration of the record before
1 It is not clear whether the examiner withdrew the final
rejection of claim 5 or simply made a typographical error in the
statement of the rejection. Appellant has assumed that the
examiner intended to maintain the rejection of claim 5 [reply
brief, page 3], and we will do the same.
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