Appeal No. 1998-0889
Application 08/006,585
Claims 2, 5, and 10-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Hakamatsuka and Otsuka, further in view of
the APA.
Claims 16 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Hakamatsuka and Otsuka, further in view of
Cannistra.
Claims 19-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Hakamatsuka and Otsuka, further in view of Hyde.
Claim 47 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Hakamatsuka and Otsuka, further in view of
Markoff.3
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 12), the Examiner's
Answer4 (Paper No. 22) (pages unnumbered, but referred to as "EA__"),
and the Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 21) for a statement
of the Examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 21) (pages
referred to as "Br__") and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 20) for
Appellant's arguments thereagainst.
3 The Examiner's Answer includes claims 24-40 in this ground of
rejection. However, claims 24-40 were indicated to be allowable in
the Advisory Action (Paper No. 14).
4 For some unknown reason, the Examiner's Answer contains the
following header: "Revision notes for the MPEFP Third Edition,
Revision 1 [12/96]."
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