Appeal No. 1998-0601
Application 08/225,322
Maeda et al. (Maeda) 4,554,652 November 19, 1985
Miura et al. (Miura) 4,669,072 May 26, 1987
Horie 5,181,194 January 19, 1993
Yoshimoto et al. (Yoshimoto) 5,251,194 October 5,
1993
(filed April 12,
1990)
Ishida et al. (Ishida) 5,351,225 September 27, 1994
(filed May 1,
1992)
Claims 1, 2, 4-6, 11, 12, and 15 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the APA in view of
any one of Yoshimoto, Ishida, Horie, Maeda, or Miura.
We refer to the first Office action (Paper No. 7), the
Final Rejection (Paper No. 10), and the Examiner's Answer
(Paper No. 20) (pages referred to as "EA__"), and the
Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 25) for a statement
of the Examiner's position and to the Amended Appeal Brief
(Paper No. 19) (pages referred to as "Br__") and the Reply
Brief (Paper No. 21) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for a2
statement of Appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We find the references to be representative of the level
of ordinary skill in the art. See In re Oelrich, 579 F.2d 86,
Entered pursuant to the Decision on Petition mailed2
July 14, 1997 (Paper No. 24).
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