Appeal No. 98-1945
Application 08/655,736
Claims 1 through 12 and 16 through 24 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Stump in
view of Bossak, Thompson, and Jones.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the first and
final rejections and answer (Paper Nos. 4, 9 and 15), while3
the complete statement of appellant’s argument can be found in
the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 14 and 16).
In the main brief (pages 2, 3, and 6), appellant groups
the claims as follows: claims 1-3, claims 4-9, claim 10,
claims 11-12, claim 16, claim 18, claims 19-21, and claims 22
through 24, and requests that each group of claims be
considered separately.
OPINION
3The examiner has not complied with Section 1208 of the MPEP. This section
specifies that statements of grounds of rejection appearing in a single prior action may
be incorporated by reference into an examiner’s answer. Thus, reference should not be
made, directly or indirectly, to more than one prior office action.
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