Appeal No. 2003-0125
Application No. 09/722,529
derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 26, respective
copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper
No. 14).
As evidence, the examiner has applied the documents listed
below:
Leverick 5,085,318 Feb. 4, 1992
Hansen 5,713,462 Feb. 3, 1998
Toussaint 6,189,689 Feb. 20, 2001
The following rejections are before us for review.1
Claim 26 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Hansen.
Claim 27 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Hansen in view of Leverick.
1 A final rejection of claims 26 through 50 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, was withdrawn by the examiner (answer,
page 5).
2
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