Appeal No. 1999-1058 Page 3
Application No. 08/832,960
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to the brief
(Paper No. 28).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Yoshino 5,020,863 Jun. 4, 1991
Steiner et al. (Steiner) 5,350,225 Sep. 27, 1994
(filed Mar. 17, 1993)
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Yoshino in view of
Steiner.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and the
response to the arguments presented by appellants appear in
the Office actions mailed February 6 and July 18, 1997 (Paper
Nos. 16 and 22, respectively) and the answer (Paper No. 29,
mailed December 1, 1998), while the complete statement of
appellants’ arguments can be found in the brief (Paper No. 28,
filed August 24, 1998).
OPINION
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