Appeal No. 2000-0303 Page 3
Application No. 08/886,649
applied to claims 17 and 25 above, and further in view of
Ficener.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 21,
mailed June 25, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the brief (Paper No. 18,
filed March 19, 1999) and reply brief (Paper No. 22, filed
August 2, 1999) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants' specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. Upon evaluation of all the evidence before us, it
is our conclusion that the evidence adduced by the examiner is
insufficient to establish a prima facie case of obviousness
with respect to the claims under appeal. Accordingly, we will
not sustain the examiner's rejection of claims 17, 18 and 21
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