Ex parte INDERBITZEN et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1999-0701                                                           
          Application No. 08/705,005                                                     


          Sahota                    5,019,042                       May  28,             
          1991                                                                           
          Blackshear, Jr. et al.   5,308,356                        May   3,             
          1994                                                                           
          (Blackshear)                              (filed Feb. 25, 1993)                




          Claims 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 16 through 18, 20, 22, 23 and 27                        
          through 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being                    
          anticipated by Blackshear.                                                     


          Claims 3, 4, 9, 11 through 15, 19, 21 and 24 through 26                        
          stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over                      
          Blackshear in view of Sahota.                                                  


          Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of                         
          the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints                      
          advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding those                        
          rejections, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper                    


          listing of claims 1-5 is a typographical error, meant to be                    
          claims --- 1, 5 ---.                                                           

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