Appeal No. 1997-0918
Application 08/160,301
Yamaoka et al. (Yamaoka) 4,692,891 Sep.
8, 1987
Zaidi 5,317,531 May 31,
1994
(filed Apr. 2, 1992)
Claims 1 through 8 and 32 through 36 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner
relies upon Yamaoka in view of Zaidi.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the various and numerous briefs
and answers for the details thereof.
OPINION
For the reasons generally set forth by the examiner in
the various answers, we sustain the rejection of claims 1
through 8, 32, 33, 35 and 36, but reverse the rejection of
dependent claim 34.
Without belaboring the development of the issues with
respect to independent claims 1 and 5 on appeal, appellant
persistently argues that the combined teachings of Yamaoka and
Zaidi fail to teach or suggest the feature common among these
two independent claims of “subtracting said divisor stored in
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