Appeal No. 98-1030
Application 08/424,115
as follows:
a) claims 1 through 5 as being unpatentable over Ohkuwa
in view of Ogiu and Klein;
b) claim 6 as being unpatentable over Ohkuwa in view of
Ogiu, Klein and Takahashi; and
c) claims 7 and 8 as being unpatentable over Ohkuwa in
view of Ogiu, Klein, Danna and Miyanaga.
Reference is made to the appellants' brief (Paper No. 29)
and to the examiner's final rejection and answer (Paper Nos.
23
and 31) for the respective positions of the appellants and the
examiner with regard to the merits of these rejections.
In general, the reference combinations proposed by the
examiner to justify of the appealed rejections are well
founded. The fair teachings and suggestions of these
references (as well as the prior art admissions made in the
appellants' disclosure) support the proposed combinations,
and belie the various hindsight arguments advanced by the
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