Appeal No. 1998-0953 Application No. 08/467,084 applied to claims 1 and 13, and further in view of Restello. The full text of the examiner's rejections and the responses to the arguments presented by appellant appear in the final rejection (Paper No. 6, mailed May 1, 1997) and the answer (Paper No. 10, mailed December 10, 1997), while the complete statement of appellant's arguments can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 9 and 11, filed November 3, 1997 and January 8, 1998, respectively). 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, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19 and 31 through 33 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007