Appeal No. 1998-0620
Application 08/359,089
Igarashi 4,704,638 November 3, 1987
Honma 5,101,282 March 31, 1992
Costrop et al. (Costrop) 5,194,898 March 16,
1993
Claims 1, 7, and 16-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Honma.
Claims 4-6, 9-13, 19-21, and 23-29 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Honma.
Claims 2, 15, and 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Honma and Costrop.
Claims 14 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Honma and Igarashi.
We refer to the first Office action (Paper No. 3), the
Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) (pages referred to as "FR__"),
and the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 12) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's position and to the
Appeal Brief (Paper No. 11) (pages referred to as "Br__") for
a statement of Appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Anticipation
"Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
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