Appeal No. 95-3317
Application No. 07/937,522
1966
Cavanagh et al. (Cavanagh) 3,955,020 May 4,
1976
Vohrer 4,495,018 Jan. 22,
1985
Claims 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Nitzsche in view of
Vohrer.
Claims 14 through 18 and 21 through 25 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Nitzsche in
view of Vohrer and Cavanagh.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of the
above rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellant, we refer to pages 2 through 9
of the examiner's answer (Paper No. 10), to the supplemental
answer (Paper No. 12), to pages 4 through 25 of the
appellant's brief (Paper No. 9) and to the reply brief (Paper
No. 11) for the full exposition thereof.2
The appellant's supplement reply brief (Paper No. 13)2
was not approved for entry by the examiner and consequently has
not been considered by this panel of the Board of Patent Appeals
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