Appeal No. 1998-2836
Application No. 08/453,211
The full text of the examiner's rejections and responses
to the arguments presented by the appellants appears in the
final rejection (Paper No. 7) and the answer (Paper No. 18),
while the complete statement of the appellants’ arguments can
be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 17 and 19,
respectively).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants’ specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made the
determinations which follow.
Rejection (1)
As a preliminary matter, we note that on page 5 of the
main brief, the appellants have identified four (4) groupings
of claims, namely, (1) claims 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17, 20, 22,
and 23, (2) claims 3 and 10, (3) claim 18, and (4) claims 19
and 21, with the claims of each group standing or falling
together. In accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we select
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