Appeal No. 2002-1213
Application No. 09/293,019
(AAPA) set forth on pages 1 and 2 of the specification in the
"Background of the Invention" section.
Claims 1 through 38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art (AAPA) in view
of Boucherie and Lui.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of the
above-noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the rejection, we make
reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 23, mailed October
30, 2001) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
appellants' brief (Paper No. 22, filed September 25, 2001) 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 AAPA, and to the respective
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