Appeal No. 1997-3970
Application No. 08/391,379
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the
disclosure of Sawada.
3. Claims 3-8, 16-21 and 29-34 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of
Ozawa or Sawada in view of Sedra.
4. Claims 9-13 and 22-26 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of
Ozawa or Sawada in view of Sedra and Yoshii .1
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner and the
evidence of anticipation and obviousness relied upon by the
examiner as support for the rejections. We have, likewise,
reviewed and taken into consideration, in reaching our
decision, the appellants’ arguments set forth in the brief
along with the examiner’s rationale in support of the
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