Appeal No. 1998-2554
Application 08/527,334
(filed August 23,
1991)
Brubaker et al. (Brubaker) 5,481,257 January 2,
1996
(filed May 24,
1994)
Cooper 5,508,736 April 16, 1996
(effective filing date
May 14, 1993)
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) for a
statement of the Examiner's rejection because the Examiner's
Answer (Paper No. 13) (pages referred to as "EA__")
erroneously repeats the rejection from the First Office Action
(Paper No. 5). However, we refer to the Examiner's Answer for
the Examiner's response to the arguments. We refer to the
Appeal Brief (Paper No. 12) (pages referred to as "Br__") and
the Reply Brief (Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as "RBr__")
for a statement of Appellant's arguments thereagainst.
Claims 11, 4, and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over VanZeeland and Oliver.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over VanZeeland and Oliver, as applied to the
rejection of claim 11, further in view of Cooper.
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