Appeal No. 98-3292 Application 08/611,848 unpatentable over Grant in view of Goldenberg as applied to claims 12, 14, 15 and 17 above, and further in view of Roth. Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding the rejections, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No. 6, mailed April 4, 1997) and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed November 17, 1997) for the reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 12, filed October 14, 1997) for the arguments thereagainst. OPINION 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007