Appeal No. 98-2805
Application 08/663,849
Independent claims 1 and 9 are representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims, as
reproduced from the Appendix to appellants’ brief, is attached
to this decision.
The single prior art reference of record relied upon by
the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Hattori 5,492,475 Feb. 20, 1996
Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 through 12 and 14 through 16 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by
Hattori.
Claim 6 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Hattori.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of
the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints
advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding those
rejections, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper
No. 6, mailed
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