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          Appeal No. 2001-2338                                                        
          Application 08/996,360                                                      


          Geraci, we have reviewed the patents to both Lofty and Coates,              
          but find nothing therein which would provide for, or otherwise              
          render obvious, that which we have found above to be lacking in             
          the examiner’s asserted combination of Zapf and Geraci.  Thus,              
          the examiner’s rejection of dependent claims 27 and 32 under                
          35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Zapf, Geraci and              
          Lofty, and the examiner’s rejection of claims 33 through 38 under           
          35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Zapf in view of               
          Coates and Geraci, will also not be sustained.                              


                                                                                     



















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