Appeal No. 95-0976
Application No. 07/936,558
as lacking patentable distinction over (1) Claims 1-11 and 13
or (2) Claims 1-4 or (3) Claims 3-20 or (4) Claims 4-7 or (5)
Claims 1-13 or (6) Claims 1-10 or (7) Claims 1-9 of copending
applications (1) 07/936,561; (2) 07/963,332; (3) 07/775,774;
(4) 07/960,983; (5) 08/005,942; (6) 07/936,434; and (7)
07/959,948; respectively.
With respect to application Serial Number 07/960,983 this
rejection is now moot in that this application has been
abandoned. With respect to application Serial Number
07/775,774 and application Serial Number 07/936,434 this
rejection is no longer provisional in that these applications
have issued as U.S. Patent # 5,430,018 and U.S. Patent #
5,348,940, respectively.
The Appeal Brief acknowledges this rejection in the
paragraph bridging pages 6 and 7, however no argument is
presented with respect to the merits of this rejection. In
that no arguments have been presented by appellants as to why
the examiner's rejection is erroneous, we summarily affirm
this rejection.
In the Appeal Brief on page 7, Appellants "request that
the Examiner hold any rejection on these grounds in abeyance
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