Appeal No. 98-3303
Application 08/568,211
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 13), while the complete statement of appellants’
argument can be found in the brief (Paper No. 12).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellants’ specification and claim 21, the applied
patents, and the respective viewpoints of appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determination which follows.
We reverse the examiner’s rejection of appellants’ claim
21.
Contrary to the view of appellants (brief, page 2), this
panel of the board shares the examiner’s view (answer, page 5)
to the effect that one having ordinary skill in the art would
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