Appeal No. 95-1950
Application No. 08/061,928
declarant's opinion at item 17 on page 14 that "such claimed
subject matter is unobvious" is entitled to little if any
weight since it amounts to an expression of ultimate legal
conclusion. In re Altenpohl, id.
The circumstances recounted above lead us to determine
that the evidence of record on, balance, weighs most heavily
in favor of an obviousness conclusion. We shall sustain,
therefore, the section 103 rejection of claims 1 through 3, 8,
12 and 13 as being unpatentable over Zahniser in view of Hunt.
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