Appeal No. 1997-4117
Application No. 08/344,746
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Duell in view of Golestan.
Claims 7 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Duell in view of Golestan, as applied
to claims 1 and 10, and further in view of Ford.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and the
responses to the arguments presented by appellant appear in
the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 16, mailed April 17, 1997), while the
complete statement of appellant's arguments can be found in
appellant's brief (Paper No. 15, filed February 18, 1997).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellant's specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made the
determinations which follow.
The rejection of claims 1, 6, 8 through 10,
16, 17, 19 20 and 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
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