Appeal No. 2001-1350
Application No. 09/188,766
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over the APA in view of Isaji as applied above, and
further in view of Official Notice.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellants
regarding those rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 11, mailed January 19, 2000) and examiner's
answer (Paper No. 14, mailed October 23, 2000) for the reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellants' brief (Paper No.
13, filed July 17, 2000) and reply brief (Paper No. 15, filed
December 21, 2000) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to appellants' specification and claims, to
the applied prior art references, and to the respective positions
articulated by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we have made the determinations which follow.
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