Appeal No. 1997-3912
Application 08/016,979
of rejection set forth in the initial examiner's answer.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answers
for the respective details thereof. These include the initial
examiner's answer dated April 1, 1996 and the supplemental
answer of September 25, 1996. We have also considered
appellants' principal brief on appeal filed on November 28,
1995 and appellants' reply brief of May 31, 1996 reflecting
the last entered amendments to the claims on appeal. The
supplemental reply brief filed on November 25, 1996 has not
been considered by us since the examiner's communication,
Paper No. 29, mailed on February 6, 1997, indicates that it
has not been entered. There, the examiner indicated
appellants' "substantial amendments to the claimed limitations
add new issues to the case."
OPINION
We sustain the rejection of claims 39 through 42 on the
basis of the reasoning expressed by the examiner in principal
answer, as well as the embellishments in the supplemental
answer. It is noted that the version of these claims on
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