Appeal No. 96-3202
Application No. 08/183,464
20 is unobvious over the applied prior art for the reasons
stated above with respect to claim 1.
New grounds of rejection
Inasmuch as the basic thrust of our affirmance of the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejections of claims 1 through 20 differs from
the rationale advanced by the examiner for the rejection, we
hereby designate the affirmance to be new grounds of rejection
pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b) to allow the appellants a fair
opportunity to react thereto (see In re Kronig, 539 F.2d 1300,
1302-03, 190 USPQ 425, 426-27 (CCPA 1976)).
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1 through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, is
reversed and the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1
through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed, with the
20
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