Appeal No. 96-0949
Application 08/236,091
Van Husen 4,514,687 Apr. 30,
1985
Swenson 4,613,804 Sep. 23, 1986
Laib 4,714,124 Dec. 22,
1987
Claims 21, 26 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon
Laib in view of Swenson and Van Husen.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer
for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that the subject matter of the
parent application to this application was the subject of an
earlier appeal, Appeal No. 93-2239, in which a decision was
rendered on August 13, 1993, and in which a rejection under 35
U.S.C. § 103 of certain claims on appeal was affirmed.
We reverse the stated rejection of the claims on appeal
herein under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Laib clearly relates to the disclosed and claimed
invention, including substantially the preamble of
representative claim 26, the magnetic sensor limitation, a
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