Appeal No. 97-1086
Application 08/326,604
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that claims 1, 2,
10, 11 and 12 on appeal will stand or fall together since
appellants have grouped these claims accordingly on page 4 of
their brief. Claims 3, 8 and 13 are said to form a separate
group, while claims "4, 5, 7 [sic] and 9" define another group
for consid-eration. Claim 7 is then said to be separately
argued from claim 6. Thus, we focus our attention on
independent claim 1 and dependent claims 3, 4 and 7 for
consideration in this appeal.
Our evaluation of the obviousness issues raised in
this appeal has included a careful assessment of appellants'
specification and claims, the applied prior art references,
and the respective positions advanced by appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have reached
the conclusions which follow.
Looking at the grouping of claims 1, 2, 10, 11 and
12, we note that appellants have indicated on page 4 of their
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