Ex parte MURAMATSU et al. - Page 6

                  Appeal No. 1998-2903                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 08/607,305                                                                                                              


                  the language of independent claim 33.  Therefore, the examiner has not provided a prima                                                 
                  facie case of obviousness with respect to claims 33 and 46.  Therefore, we cannot sustain                                               
                  the rejection of claims 2-21, 33 and 46-48 over Mochida alone.                                                                          
                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                              

                           To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 2-21, 33 and 46-48                                                 
                  under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is reversed.                                                                                                   
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              




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