Appeal No. 96-2635
Application 07/993,050
Independent claims 1, 14 and 21 are representative of the claimed
subject matter and a copy of those claims, as they appear in the
Appendix to appellants' brief, is attached to this decision.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
rejections of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Anderson 3,826,243 July 30, 1974
Settle et al. (Settle) 4,013,068 Mar. 22, 1977
Ross et al. (Ross) 4,800,893 Jan. 31, 1989
Prichep 5,083,571 Jan. 28, 1992
While the examiner on pages 2, 3 and 4 of the answer
(Paper No. 20) has listed some 21 references as "relied upon in
the rejection of claims under appeal," we note that only the four
references listed above are applied in the rejections of claims 1
through 5, 7 through 17, 21 and 22 set forth on pages 4-7 of the
examiner's answer. Accordingly, it is to those four references
that we have directed our attention in deciding this appeal.
Claims 21 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Ross in view of Settle.
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