Appeal No. 1999-0282 Page 9
Application No. 08/716,995
and communicating with a like slot in a face of the transport
chamber.
The examiner's rejection of claims 20 through 22 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is founded on the theory that all the
limitations of claim 20 are disclosed by Muka except for
details of the transport apparatus which the examiner
determined were suggested by Ozawa's system. However, as set
forth above with respect to claim 1, Muka does not disclose "a
horizontally disposed slot" as recited in independent claim
20.
Since the examiner has not established that all the
limitations of claim 20, and claims 21 and 22 dependent
thereon, are obvious from the applied prior art, the decision
of the examiner to reject claims 20 through 22 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
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