Appeal No. 1997-3932
Application 08/435,237
Claim 8 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Kaiser.
Claims 2-7 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Butt and Kovacs.
Claims 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kaiser.
Claims 11, 12, 15-17, 19, and 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kaiser.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 16) and the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 24) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's position and to
the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 22) (pages referred to as
"Br__") and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 26) for a statement
of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Claims 2-7 and 18
Claims 2-7 and 18 stand together. Claim 7 is
separately argued in case the rejection of claim 2 is not
reversed.
The embodiment of claim 2 corresponds to figure 9.
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