Appeal No. 1998-1562 Page 25
Application No. 08/611,416
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claim 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, is reversed;
the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1, 16 to 18 and
21 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Eichenberger is reversed; the decision of the examiner to
reject claims 1, 2, 21 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Johannsson is affirmed with respect to
claims 1, 2 and 22 but is reversed with respect to claim 21;
the decision of the examiner to reject claims 2 to 4 and 8
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed; the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 5, 6, 19 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. §
103 is reversed; and new rejections of claims 1, 16 to 20 and
22 have been added pursuant to provisions of
37 CFR § 1.196(b).
In addition to affirming the examiner's rejection of one
or more claims, this decision contains a new ground of
rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec.
claim 19.
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