Appeal No. 97-1475
Application 08/069,544
Claims 18 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Freeman in view of Goldstein.
Claims 25, 28 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Goldstein in view of Dutton.
Claims 26 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Goldstein in view of Dutton as applied to
claim 25 above, and further in view of Freeman.
Claim 29 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Goldstein in view of Dutton and Dalby.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of each of
the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints
advanced by the examiner and appellant, we refer to the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 25) and supplemental examiner's
answer (Paper No. 28), and appellant's brief (Paper No. 24) and
reply brief (Paper No. 27) for the full exposition thereof.
OPINION
In arriving at our decision in this appeal, we have carefully
considered appellant's specification and claims (both as
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