Appeal No. 1998-1289
Application 07/906,492
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Ware in view of
Nelson and Overbeck.
Claims 31 through 40 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Adams in view of
Bache and the Italian reference.
Claim 41 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Adams in view of Bache, the
Italian reference and Nobach.4
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and
reply briefs (Paper Nos. 26 and 29) and to the examiner’s
final rejection and main and supplemental answers (Paper
Nos. 19, 27 and 30) for the respective positions of the
appellants and the examiner with regard to the merits of
these rejections.5
4 The record as a whole indicates that the examiner’s
failure to restate this rejection in the main answer (Paper
No. 27) was inadvertent.
5 As a result of the amendments made subsequent to final
rejection (see n.1, supra), the examiner has withdrawn the
6
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