Appeal No. 1998-2806
Application No. 08/459,721
representative of the subject matter before us on appeal and a
copy of that claim can be found in Appendix A of appellants’
brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Destouet et al. (Destouet) 4,995,882 Feb. 26,
1991
Claims 18 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being clearly anticipated by an admission in
appellants’ specification (page 6, lines 4-20).
Claims 21 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the admission in appellants’
specification (page 6, lines 4-20) in view of Destouet.1
1On page 6 of the examiner’s answer, the examiner has
indicated withdrawal of the rejection of claims 21 and 24
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, that was part of the
final rejection (Paper No. 11).
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