Appeal No. 2000-1445
Application No. 09/149,254
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and
response to the argument presented by appellant appears in the
answer (Paper No. 10), while the complete statement of
appellant’s argument can be found in the brief (Paper No. 9).
Appellant has not indicated that the claims do not
stand or fall together, as per 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7). Thus, we
select claim 1 for review, infra, and the remaining claims
shall stand or fall therewith.
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the issue raised in
this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellant’s specification and selected claim 1, the applied
teachings, and the respective viewpoints of appellant and1
1In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA
1966). Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into
account not only the specific teachings, but also the
inferences which one skilled in the art would reasonably have
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