Appeal No. 99-0618 Page 4
Application No. 08/797,496
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Celeste 4,140,224 Feb. 20, 1979
Garfinkle 5,199,199 Apr. 6,
1993
Gebka et al. (Gebka) 5,394,632 Mar. 7, 1995
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 2, 5, 6 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Celeste in view of Gebka.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Celeste in view of Gebka, as applied above,
and further in view of Garfinkle.
The complete text of the examiner's rejections and
response to the argument presented by the appellant appears in
the answer (Paper No. 21, mailed August 12, 1998), while the
complete statement of the appellant's argument can be found in
the brief (Paper No. 20, filed June 29, 1998).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellant's specification and
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