Ex parte WATANABE - Page 3




                 Appeal No. 1997-3731                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/152,089                                                                                                             


                          The following rejection is before us for review.2                                                                             

























                          2On page 2 of the final rejection (Paper No. 25), the                                                                         
                 examiner included two respective rejections of claims 1 and 3                                                                          
                 through 7. On page 3 of the main answer (Paper No. 31), the                                                                            
                 examiner withdrew the references Levinstein ‘201 (sic,‘516)                                                                            
                 and IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin from the first                                                                                   
                 rejection, and withdrew the entirety of the second rejection                                                                           
                 (although Roland et al and Japanese patent ‘534 were not                                                                               
                 mentioned, apparently inadvertently). The rejection now before                                                                         
                 is the aforesaid first rejection from the final rejection,                                                                             
                 without the Levinstein ‘516 and IBM Technical Disclosure                                                                               
                 Bulletin documents.                                                                                                                    
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