Appeal No. 1999-1393 Application No. 08/242,344 We affirm the examiner’s rejection of claims 23 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Cutting. We reverse the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 26, and 42-49 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Heinemann in view of Puckett, Sun, Schofield, and Grenningloh. We reverse the examiner’s rejection of claims 23, 24 and 27 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Heinemann in view of Puckett, Sun, Schofield, and Grenningloh as applied to claims 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 26, and 42-49 above, and further in view of Cutting. Appeal No. 2000-1778: Reversed We reverse the examiner’s rejection of claims 28, 43-45, and 49-52 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Heinemann in view of Puckett and Sun. Appeal No. 2000-1779: Affirmed-in-Part We affirm the rejection of claims 17 and 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of McNamara and Sommer ‘90. We reverse the examiner’s rejection of claim 31 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of McNamara and Sommer ‘90. 126Page: Previous 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007