Appeal No. 2002-0508
Application No. 09/225,116
The examiner relies on the following prior art references
as evidence of unpatentability:
Chou 5,308,415 May 3, 1994
Yoshimori et al. 5,468,684 Nov. 21, 1995
(Yoshimori)
Jost et al. 5,705,838 Jan. 6, 1998
(Jost) (effective filing date Feb. 22, 1995)
Jeng et al. 5,814,558 Sep. 29, 1998
(Jeng) (effective filing date Aug. 31, 1994)
The examiner has maintained the following grounds of
rejection:
I. claims 2 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph,
“as containing subject matter which was not described in the
specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one
skilled in the relevant art that the inventor(s), at the time
the application was filed, had possession of the claimed
invention” (examiner’s answer mailed Oct. 16, 2001, paper 23,
pages 3-4);
II. claims 1 and 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by Jeng (id. at pages 4-5);
III. claims 1, 2, 4 through 7, 13, 14, and 16 through 19
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Yoshimori (id. at
page 5);
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