Appeal No. 97-1449
Application 08/395,214
Claims 1, 2, 4 through 7, 9, 10 and 14 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. §102(b) as being anticipated by LaRue.
Claim 19 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103 as being
unpatentable over LaRue in view of Petralia.
The examiner's full statement of the rejections and response
to appellants' arguments appears on pages 3 through 7 of the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 11, mailed August 23, 1996) and in
the communication from the examiner mailed March 18, 1998 (Paper
No. 15). Appellants' viewpoints concerning the examiner's
rejections of the appealed claims are found in the brief (Paper
No. 10, filed June 24, 1996) and in the reply brief (Paper No.
12, filed September 12, 1996).
0PINION
In arriving at our decision in this appeal, we have
carefully considered appellants' specification and claims, the
applied references, and the respective viewpoints of appellants
and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made
the determinations which follow.
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