Ex parte MONONEN - Page 11




                 Appeal No. 1997-3798                                                                                    Page 11                        
                 Application No. 08/272,018                                                                                                             


                          For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the                                                                          
                 examiner to reject claims 1 and 2, and claims 3 to 9, 11 and                                                                           
                 14 to 16 dependent thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is                                                                                   
                 reversed.2                                                                                                                             


                                                                   CONCLUSION                                                                           
                          To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject                                                                          
                 claims 2 to 6, 11 and 14 to 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first                                                                            
                 paragraph, is reversed and the decision of the examiner to                                                                             
                 reject claims 1 to 9, 11 and 14 to 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is                                                                         
                 reversed.                                                                                                                              
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                            





                                            NEAL E. ABRAMS                                        )                                                     
                                            Administrative Patent Judge                           )                                                     
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                                                                                                  ) BOARD OF PATENT                                     

                          2We have reviewed Leppanen applied in the rejection of                                                                        
                 claim 9 but find nothing therein which makes up for the                                                                                
                 deficiencies of Eriksson discussed above.                                                                                              







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