Appeal No. 96-3513
Application No. 08/220,772
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 12,
mailed February 12, 1996) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the appellant's
Brief (Paper No. 10, filed November 15, 1995), Supplemental
Brief (Paper No. 16, filed February 17, 1999), and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 13, filed April 15, 1996) for the appellant's
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that appellant indicates
on page 3 of the Brief (with reasons as set forth in 37 CFR
§§ 1.192(c)(5) and (c)(6)) that the claims do not stand or
fall
together. Appellant groups the claims as follows: (1) claims
1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13 through 15, and 17 (2) claims 2, 3, 5, 6,
8, 9, 19, and 21, and (3) claims 18 and 20. We will treat
claim 1 as representative of Group 1 and claim 18 as
representative of Group 3.
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art reference, and the respective positions articulated
by the appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of our
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