Appeal No. 2002-0195
Application No. 09/174,977
related Appeal No. 1996-2901, and those reasons set forth below.
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner is affirmed-in-part.
OPINION
A. Background
This application is a continuation of application no.
08/088,405, in which a merits panel of this Board issued a decision
affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 22 through 39 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Izumimoto et al. (Izumimoto), U.S. Patent
No. 4,762,722, issued Aug. 9, 1988 (see the decision dated Aug. 31,
1998, in Appeal No. 1995-3770, with a Request for Rehearing denied,
see Paper No. 29 mailed Sep. 28, 1999). For purposes of
comparison, we attach a copy of claims 30 and 31 from Appeal No.
1995-3770 as Appendix II to this decision.
This application is also related to application no. 08/072,879
(see the Brief, page 1), in which a merits panel of this Board
issued a decision reversing the examiner’s rejection of claims 1
through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Nakamura in view of
Gammill et al. (Gammill, U.S. Patent No. 2,819,491, issued Jan. 14,
1958)(see Appeal No. 1996-2901, with the decision mailed on Sep.
28, 2000, as Paper No. 20). For comparison purposes, a copy of
claim 1 from this appeal is also attached as Appendix III to this
decision.
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