Appeal No. 95-1515
Application 08/027,656
more than one claim, it will be presumed
that the rejected claims stand or fall
together unless a statement is included
that the rejected claims do not stand or
fall together, and in the appropriate part
or parts of the argument under subparagraph
(c)(6) of this section appellant presents
reasons as to why appellant considers the
rejected claims to be separately
patentable.
As per 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(5), which was controlling at the time
of Appellant's filing the brief, we will, thereby, consider
Appellant’s claims 1 through 4 and 7 to stand or fall
together,
with claim 1 being considered the representative claim. We
will treat claims 5, 6 , 8 and 9 separately.
On pages 4 and 5 of the brief, Appellant argues that
there is no suggestion in the references to combined in the
manner suggested by the Examiner. Appellant argues that a
person skilled in the art who was looking to develop an
attachment that would allow a camera to photograph two
separate and distinct slides and create a single slide with
the two original slides reproduced next to each other would
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