Appeal No. 1997-0569
Application No. 08/150,559
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that on page 4 of the
brief appellants have indicated that claims 7, 9, 13 and 15 on
appeal "stand together" and that claims 1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12 and
17 through 22 "stand together." In the ARGUMENT section of
their brief appellants have, with respect to the first group
of claims noted above, argued only claim 13. With regard to
the second group of claims, appellants have argued only claim
1.
Accordingly, we focus our attention on claims 1 and 13 for
consideration in this appeal, although other of the
independent claims on appeal will also be discussed.
Our evaluation of the obviousness issues raised in this
appeal has included a careful assessment of appellants’
specification and claims, the applied prior art, and the
respective positions advanced by appellants and the examiner.
As a consequence of our review, we have come to the
conclusions which follow.
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