Appeal No. 96-2630
Application No. 08/259,824
b) to reject claims 23 through 30 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Klowak, Sanford, Weldon,
Smith, Hostetler or Ogden is reversed.
Any request for reconsideration or modification of this
decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences based
upon the same record must be filed within one month from the date
hereof (37 CFR § 1.197).
With respect to the designation of the affirmed rejection as
a new ground of rejection under 37 CFR § 1.196(b), should
appellants elect the alternate option under that rule to
prosecute further before the Primary Examiner by way of amendment
or showing of facts, or both, not previously of record, a
shortened statutory period for making such response is hereby set
to expire two months from the date of this decision.
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