Appeal No. 1997-4264
Application No. 08/421,131
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Burger 3,663,962 May 23,
1972
Van Vliet 4,297,157 Oct. 27,
1981
Greene 4,674,135 Jun. 23,
1987
Lawson 4,695,278 Sep. 22,
1987
Zafiroglu 4,773,238 Sep. 27,
1988
(Zafiroglu '238)
Zafiroglu 4,879,169 Nov. 07,
1989
(Zafiroglu '169)
Zafiroglu 4,998,421 Mar.
12, 1991
(Zafiroglu '421)
As a preliminary matter, we note that on pages 2 and 3 of
the Office action mailed April 4, 1996 (Paper No. 15), the
specification was objected to under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as failing to support the invention being claimed
and claims 1 through 16 and 21 through 24 were rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, for the reasons set forth in
the objection to the specification. In the next Office action
(Paper No. 17), which was made final, the examiner again
objected to the specification, but omitted the rejection of
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