Ex parte VETTER - Page 4




          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                                     

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