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 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007