Appeal No. 1999-0929
Application No. 08/514,986
(U.S. Patent No. 3,859,482) and also the rejection of claim 17
under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Matsui in view of
Peachey (U.S. Patent No. 4,060,705).
We have carefully considered each of the points of
argument raised by appellants in their request, however, those
arguments do not persuade us that our decision was in error.
With regard to the rejections of claim 17 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) and § 103, we note that appellants now urge that
elements (97, 98 and 99) of the detecting device seen in
Matsui’s Figure 15a, taken individually or in combination, do
not insulate the elongated strips (95, 95’) from one another,
as is required of the "means for coupling" set forth in claim
17 on appeal. Appellants note that it is in fact the spacers
(96, 96’) of Matsui (Figure 14) which are described in the
reference
(column 18, lines 18-23) as being interposed between the
strips (95, 95’) and as serving to insulate the elongated
strips (95, 95’) from one another. Thus, appellants argue
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