Appeal No. 95-0576
Application 08/035,546
GRON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 134
1. Introduction
This is an appeal from an examiner’s rejection of
Claims 1-3, 17, 28, 33-35, and 40, all claims pending in this
application. Claims 1-3, 17, 28, 33-35, and 40, stand finally
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable in view of
the teaching of Mrozik, U.S. 4,423,209, patented December 27,
1983. Claims 1-3, 17, 28, 33-35, and 40, stand finally rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable in view of the
combined teachings of United Kingdom Patent Application
GB 2,166,436, published May 8, 1986, and Mrozik.
All claims on appeal stand or fall together with
representative Claim 1 which is reproduced in the attached
Appendix. We have considered the claimed subject matter and the
supporting specification, the prior art teachings of Mrozik and
GB 2,166,436 , the Declaration Under 37 CFR § 1.132 of David A.2
Perry, dated October 2, 1992, the Brief For Appellants and
Examiner’s Answer. We also note the subject matter claimed in
We presume for purposes of this appeal that the subject matter2
presently claimed is entitled to the benefit only of the January 11,
1988, filing date of grandparent Application 07/142,888. However,
the effective filing date of the subject matter claimed has not been
established.
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