Appeal No. 1998-3035
Application No. 08/580,036
112. Claims 6 and 20-24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over either Yoshizawa or
Nagasaki.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Brief and 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 prior art
rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration, in reaching our decision, Appellants’ arguments
set forth in the Brief 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 the disclosure in this application fails to describe
the invention as recited in claims 1-24 in a manner which
complies with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 112. We reach
the opposite conclusion with respect to claims 25 and 26. We
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