Appeal No. 98-2005
Application No. 08/571,156
Claims 1, 9 and 19 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in
the "Claim Appendix" of appellants’ brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Aoki et al. (Aoki) 4,805,472 Feb. 21,
1989
Watson et al. (Watson) 5,407,024 Apr. 18,
1995
(filed June 24,
1992)
Buhl et al. (Buhl) 5,469,757 Nov. 28,
1995
(§ 102(e)date August 27,
1994)
In addition to the foregoing references, the examiner has
also relied upon Admitted Prior Art set forth on page 2, lines
1-8, of appellants’ specification.
Claims 1 through 5, 8 through 13 and 16 through 20 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
Admitted Prior Art in view of Buhl.
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