Ex Parte Apps et al - Page 17



         Appeal 2005-0801                                                                                       
         Application 09/848,628                                                                                 

                             61.  Additionally, the amendment cancelled allowable claims                        
                3, 7, and 13, and rewrote them as new independent claims 22, 24, and 25,                        
                respectively.                                                                                   
                             62. New depended claim 23 (from claim 22) as added which                           
                incorporated the feature of cancelled claim 4.                                                  
                             63 Dependent claims 8 and 10 as originally filed were also                         
                amended to now depend from new claim 25.                                                        
                             64. With respect to new claim 21, applicant stated as follows:                     
                       New claim 22 contains all of the limitations of original claims 1                        
                       and 3, new claim 23 contains all of the limitations of original                          
                       claim 4 and depends on allowable claim 22, new claim 24                                  
                       contains all of the limitations of original claims 1 and 7, and                          
                       new claim 25 contains all of the limitations of original claims                          
                       11, 12, and 13.  (Res. to final action, page 7-8)                                        
                             65. The original application was then allowed.                                     
                             66. Consistent with Office practice, the claims were re-                           
                numbered in the course of preparing the original application for issue, all as                  
                follows:                                                                                        









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