Appeal No. 1999-0288
Application No. 08/538,071 Page 3
Claims 8-11, 14-18, 20-25, 28-31, 33-36, 38, and 391 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Gover in
view of Wibecan.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejections,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 16, mailed
March 31, 1998) and the final rejection (Paper No. 6, mailed
April 3, 1997) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejections, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 15, filed
February 2, 1998) and reply brief (Paper No. 20, filed June 1,
1998) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only those
arguments actually made by appellants have been considered in
this decision. Arguments which appellants could have made but
chose not to make in the brief have not been considered. See 37
CFR 1.192(a).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have carefully
considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejections advanced
by the examiner, and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by
1 The rejection of claims 37 and 40 under this ground has been withdrawn
by the examiner (answer, page 4).
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