Appeal No. 2003-0222
Application 09/555,910
of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of that claim may be
found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The sole prior art reference relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims is:
Sanctuary 3,348,805 Oct. 24, 1967
Claims 11, 13, 14 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Sanctuary.
Claims 15, 16, 18 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Sanctuary.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellants
regarding those rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 19, mailed June 5, 2002) for the reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No.
17, filed May 6, 2002) and reply brief (Paper No. 20, filed July
31, 2002) for the arguments thereagainst.
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