Appeal No. 96-1879
Application 08/006,194
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
a rejection of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Hiratsuka et al. (Hiratsuka)
(EPA `365) 0 166 365 Jan. 2, 1986
Blatt (EPA `883) 0 287 883 Oct. 26, 1988
Applicants’ Admitted Prior Art, page 4, lines 3-8; page 6, lines
10-17; and pages 11 and 13.
Claims 20 through 26 and 28 through 43 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hiratsuka in view of
appellants' admitted prior art and Blatt.2
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 13 of
the examiner's answer, pages 4 through 17 of the appellants'
brief, and to the supplemental reply brief filed March 13, 1995
(Paper No. 42) for the full exposition thereof.3
We have chosen to follow the conventional practice of the U.S. Patent2
and Trademark Office by identifying EPA '365 and EPA '883 by the surname of
the first listed inventor named each in these references.
We note that the reply brief filed November 21, 1994 (Paper No. 39)3
was denied entry by the examiner and thus has not been considered by this
panel of the Board.
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