Appeal No. 2002-0866
Application No. 09/262,471
application. Claim 6 was amended subsequent to the final Office
action dated September 26, 2000. See the Advisory Action dated
January 29, 2001, Paper No. 10.
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
Claims 1, 14, 17 and 18 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of these claims is appended to this
decision.
PRIOR ART
The examiner relies on the following prior art references:
Van Delft et al. (Delft) 4,076,852 Feb. 28, 1978
Van den Heuvel et al. (Heuvel) 5,368,876 Nov. 29, 1994
REJECTION
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
1) Claims 1, 2, 6, 8 through 13, 15 through 17 and 20 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by the disclosure of Delft; and
2) Claims 14 and 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over
the combined disclosures of Delft and Heuvel.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
prior art, including all of the evidence and arguments advanced
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