Appeal No. 1997-3129
Application No. 08/301,743
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Sauerwald et al. (Sauerwald) 4,791,358 Dec.
13, 1988
Claims 1-20 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Sauerwald.1
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs and Answer for the 2
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejection advanced by the Examiner and the
evidence of obviousness relied upon by the Examiner as support
for the rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration in reaching our decision, Appellants’ arguments
1Although the Examiner’ statement of the grounds of
rejection at page 4 of the Answer includes only claims 1-16,
it is apparent from the record, including the final Office
action dated April 24, 1996, that claims 1-20, all of the
pending claims, are included in this appeal. This is
confirmed by the Examiner’s confirmation (Answer, page 2) of
Appellants’ statement of the status of the claims.
2The Appeal Brief was filed October 29, 1996. In
response to the Examiner’s Answer dated January 8, 1997, a
Reply Brief was filed February 28, 1997 which was acknowledged
and entered by the Examiner without further comment on April
3, 1997.
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