Appeal No. 1996-3973
Application No. 08/048,657
Pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), the following new grounds of rejection
have been made. Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Tietz, taken in
light of Przybylowicz. Claims 6 and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Evans and Tietz. Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Evans and Tietz, as applied to claim 6 above, and further in view of Przybylowicz. Claims 1, 4
and 5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kato, Przybylowicz and
Tietz. Claims 1, 3-5 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Tietz
and Eggert in view of Przybylowicz and Evans and taken further in view of Ngo and Phillips.
Claims 1, 2 and 14-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Przybylowicz, Phillips, Eggert and Tietz. Claims 7 and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Evans and Tietz, as applied to claim 6 above, and further in view of Ngo
and Phillips. Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Evans,
Przybylowicz and Tietz taken further in view of Ngo and Phillips.
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