Appeal No. 1998-2044
Application No. 08/719,773
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the
examiner offers Kagami and Yazawa taken together. 2
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner, the arguments
in support of the rejections and the evidence of obviousness
relied upon by the examiner as support for the obviousness
rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration, in reaching our decision, the appellants’
arguments set forth in the briefs along with the examiner’s
rationale in support of the rejections and arguments in
rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s answer.
It is our view, after consideration of the record before
us, that claim 16 particularly points out the invention in a
just as appellants did in the brief.
2Our understanding of Kagami and Yazawa is based upon
translations provided to us by the Scientific and Technical
Information Center of the Patent and Trademark Office. Copies
of these translations are attached to this decision.
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