Ex parte LONGCOR et al. - Page 4




                Appeal No. 97-0032                                                                                                            
                Application No. 08/095,295                                                                                                    


                         Claims 21, 22, 24 through 28, 30, 33 and 36 stand rejected                                                           
                under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Warren in view                                                               
                of Connell, Worrall and Touzani.2                                                                                             


                         Claims 23 and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                                                             
                being unpatentable over the prior art applied to claims 22 and 28                                                             
                above, and further in view of Gershman.                                                                                       


                         Claims 31 and 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                                                             
                being unpatentable over Warren in view of Connell, Worrall,                                                                   
                Touzani and Gershman.                                                                                                         


                         Claim 34 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                                                              
                unpatentable over Warren in view of Worrall and Touzani.                                                                      


                         Claim 35 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                                                              
                unpatentable over Warren in view of Connell, Worrall and Touzani.                                                             



                         2We note that the examiner failed to include Worrall in the                                                          
                statement of this rejection.  However, appellants were aware that                                                             
                the examiner applied Worrall in the body of this rejection.  See                                                              
                page 6, last line through page 7, line 5, of the brief.                                                                       
                Accordingly, we will treat Worrall as being included in the                                                                   
                statement of this rejection.                                                                                                  
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