Appeal No. 97-0615 Application 08/359,664 examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Alfandari 2,547,242 Apr. 03, 1951 Hymmen 4,656,907 Apr. 14, 1987 Clark 4,936,175 Jun. 26, 1990 Claims 1 through 7, 18 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Clark in view of Alfandari. Claims 8 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Clark and Alfandari as applied to claims 1 and 18 above, and further in view of Hymmen. Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant regarding those rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed September 5, 1996) for the examiner's reasoning 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007