Appeal No. 2004-1319
Application 09/933,329
applied to claims 1 and 10 above, and further in view of Moore or
Jore.
Claims 18 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Lassiter in view of Givot.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellant regarding the above-noted rejections,
we refer to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 16, mailed September
5, 2003) for an exposition of the examiner’s positions, and to
appellant’s brief (Paper No. 15, filed July 22, 2003) for the
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Having carefully reviewed the obviousness rejections raised
in this appeal in light of the record before us, we have made the
determinations which follow.
Looking first to the examiner’s rejection of claims 1
through 8, 10 through 14 and 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Fuca in view of Parker or Rosenbaum, we note
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