Appeal No. 1998-1470
Application 08/533,740
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Hoogeveen et al. (Hoogeveen) 4,622,661 November
11, 1986
Claims 1-4, 6-9, and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Hoogeveen.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 6) and the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 13) (pages referred to as "EA__")
for a statement of the Examiner's position and to the Appeal
Brief (Paper No. 12) (pages referred to as "Br__") for a
statement of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Although Appellants identify claims 1-4 and 6 as one
group of claims and claims 7-9 and 11 as a second group of
claims (Br5), Appellants argue independent claims 1 and 7 as
one group and dependent claims 6 and 11 as a second group.
Accordingly, we consider claims 1-4 and 7-9 to stand or fall
together, with claim 1 considered as representative, and
claims 7 and 9 to be a second group, with claim 6 considered
as representative.
Claims 1-4 and 7-9
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