Appeal No. 97-4294 Page 5
Application No. 08/294,155
Claims 13, 17, 33 and 37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Pieniak in view of Jackson.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper
No. 8, mailed May 10, 1996) and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 13, mailed June 23, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the appellants'
brief (Paper No. 12, filed May 12, 1997) for the appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants' specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
The indefiniteness issue
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