Appeal No. 96-1904 Application 08/164,854 affirmed the rejection of claims 1 and 3 through 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph; reversed the rejection of claims 20 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph; reversed the rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by each of McCall, Lahr, Rader, and Goldstein, but affirmed the rejection of claim 20 on the same ground; reversed the rejection of claims 3 through 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over McCall, Lahr, Rader, and Goldstein in view of the IBM reference and Leipzig, affirmed the rejection of claims 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 21 on 25Page: Previous 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007