Appeal No. 97-1057 Application 08/160,298 teachings of Chu and Vassiliadis. Finally, claims 83-97 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the teachings of Chu, Vassiliadis and Pfeiffer. Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answers for the respective details thereof. OPINION We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by the examiner as support for the rejections. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into consideration, in reaching our decision, the appellants' arguments set forth in the briefs along with the examiner's rationale in support of the rejections and arguments in rebuttal set forth in the examiner's answers. It is our view, after consideration of the record before us, that the provisional obviousness-type double patenting rejection should be sustained. We are also of the view that the collective evidence relied upon and the level of skill in the particular art would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art the obviousness of the invention as 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007