Appeal No. 96-2866 Page 17
Application No. 08/185,221
"wires" in general as claimed. Moreover, the specification
states that this value "does not appear to be statistically
significant" (page 11, lines 12 and 13).
In summary:
The examiner's rejections of claims 20-26 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 are reversed.
New rejections of claims 20-26 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, and claims 20 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
have been made.
This decision contains new grounds of rejection pursuant
to 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by
final rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10, 1997),
1203 Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21,
1997)). 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b) provides that, “A new ground of
rejection shall not be considered final for purposes of
judicial review.”
37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant,
WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise
one of the following two options with respect to the new
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