Ex parte THEOBALD - Page 11




          Appeal No. 95-0907                                                          
          Application 07/774,757                                                      

          and/or Tuttle et al. is not an issue before us in this appeal.              
               Claims 11 and 20 each depend directly or indirectly from               
          claim 1.  The examiner has applied the appellant's own disclosed            
          prior art to satisfy the features added by claims 11 and 20.                
          However, as applied by the examiner, the disclosed or admitted              
          prior art does not make up for the deficiencies of Wang and                 
          Rattan insofar as the features of claim 1 are concerned.                    
               Accordingly, the rejection of claims 1-10 and 12-19 under              
          35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Wang and Rattan cannot           
          be sustained.                                                               
               The rejection of claims 11 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as             
          being unpatentable over Wang, Rattan, and the appellant's                   
          disclosed prior art cannot be sustained.                                    
















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