Appeal No. 96-0401 Page 4
Application No. 08/127,304
Claims 6 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Manns '442 or Manns '215 in view of
Freeman.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 14, mailed May 16, 1995) and the supplemental examiner's
answer (Paper No. 16, mailed October 13, 1995) for the
examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections,
and to the appellants' brief (Paper No. 13, filed April 17,
1995), reply brief (Paper No. 15, filed July 17, 1995) and
supplemental reply brief (Paper No. 17, filed December 4,
1995) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants' specification and 2
2The appellants describe Figure 4 on page 8 of the
specification. In accordance with 37 CFR § 1.74, the
appellants should amend the brief description of the drawings
(specification, p. 5) to refer to Figure 4.
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