Appeal No. 1999-1480
Application No. 08/523,330
Claims 68 and 69 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over McRae in view of Linsalato as
applied to claim 63, and further in view of Schmalz.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant
regarding the rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 26, mailed June 9, 1998) and the
examiner’s answer (Paper No. 29, mailed December 22, 1998) for
the reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellant’s
brief (Paper No. 28, mailed October 9, 1998) for the arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that on page 7 of the
appeal brief appellant “solicits the independent consideration
of the independent claim in each group (Claim 52, Claim 57,
Claim 63), and additionally of Claims 65 and 66.”
Accordingly, we specifically address in our discussions below,
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