Appeal No. 97-1473
Application 08/492,376
The examiner's statement of the rejections and response
to appellant's arguments appears on pages 3 through 5 of the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 8, mailed August 14, 1996).
Appellant's viewpoints concerning the examiner's rejections of
the appealed claims are found in the brief (Paper No. 7, filed
May 17, 1996) and in the supplemental brief (Paper No. 12,
filed April 7, 1998).
0PINION
In arriving at our decision in this appeal, we have
carefully considered appellant's specification and claims, the
applied references, and the respective viewpoints of appellant
and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have
made the determinations which follow.
Turning first to the examiner's rejection of claims 1
through 7 under the judicially created doctrine of
obviousness-type double patenting, we understand the
examiner's position to be that the compact case set forth in
3
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007