Appeal No. 1999-1787
Application No. 08/797,521
advanced by the examiner and appellant regarding those
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 12, mailed December 21, 1998) and supplemental answer
(Paper No. 14, mailed March 5, 1999) for the reasoning in
support of the rejections and to appellant’s brief (Paper No.
11, filed December 1, 1998) and reply brief (Paper No. 13,
filed February 22, 1999) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, this panel of
the Board has given careful consideration to appellant’s
specification and claims, to the applied prior art reference,
and to the respective positions articulated by appellant and
the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have reached
the determinations which follow.
Looking first to the examiner’s rejection of claims 25
and 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, we note that
on page 4 of the brief appellant has agreed with the examiner
that claims 25 and 27 include a recitation to “the left cord,”
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