Appeal No. 95-1950
Application No. 08/061,928
Mukogawa et al. 4,765,963 Aug. 23, 1988
(Mukogawa)
Claims 1 through 3, 8, 12 and 13 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Zahniser in view of
Hunt.
Claims 1, 3 and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Mukogawa, and claim 2 is
correspondingly rejected over this reference and further in
view of Hunt.
Preliminarily, we observe that the independent claims
have been separately grouped; see the paragraph bridging pages
6 and 7 of the brief. Accordingly, the dependent claims on
appeal will stand or fall with these independent claims.
We refer to the brief and to the answer for a complete
exposition of the opposing viewpoints expressed by the
appellant and the examiner concerning the above noted
rejections.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, we will sustain the
rejection based on Zahniser in view of Hunt, but we will not
sustain either of the rejections based on Mukogawa alone or
further in view of Hunt.
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