Appeal No. 96-2697
Application 08/215,170
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Lehrer 4,654,269 Mar. 31, 1987
Claims 1-4 and 14-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, as being based on an inadequate
disclosure. Claims 1-4 and 14-26 also stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the examiner
offers Lehrer taken alone. The Section 103 rejection is a new
ground of rejection in the examiner’s answer which reasserts a
rejection that was made and dropped during earlier prosecution
of this invention.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner, the arguments
in support of the rejections and the evidence of obviousness
relied upon by the examiner as support for the obviousness
rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
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