Ex parte CORRY - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1996-3597                                         Page 9            
          Application No. 08/050,825                                                     


          facie obviousness of the claimed invention as a whole,                         
          including each and every limitation of the claims.  In re                      
          Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1075, 5 USPQ 1596, 1600 (Fed. Cir. 1988);                 
          In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017, 154 USPQ 173, 178 (CCPA                     
          1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 1057 (1967).  Accordingly, we                    
          shall not sustain the examiner*s rejection of the appealed                     
          claims under 35 U.S.C.                                                         
          § 103.                                                                         
                                       CONCLUSION                                        
               The decision of the examiner to reject claims 1-5, 10-12                  
          and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph as being                        
          indefinite for failing to particularly point out and                           
          distinctly claim the subject matter which appellant regards as                 
          the invention and to reject claims 1-5, 10-12 and 20 under 35                  
          U.S.C. § 103 as being                                                          

















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