Appeal No. 1999-2775
Application No. 08/549,847
we refer to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 22, mailed April 12,
1999) and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 21, filed February 1,
1999) for a full exposition thereof.
OPINION
At the outset, we observe that appellants, on page 4 of
their brief, have provided three groupings of the claims before
us on appeal, i.e., Group 1: claims 1 and 5 through 7; Group 2:
claims 13 and 15 through 17; and Group 3: claims 2 and 14. Thus,
in accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we have selected claims
1, 13 and 2 as being representative of the respective claim
groupings and will decide this appeal on the basis of those
claims alone.
Having carefully reviewed the obviousness issues raised in
this appeal in light of the record before us, we have come to the
conclusion that the examiner's rejection of the appealed claims
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 should be sustained with regard to claims
13 and 15 through 17, but not with regard to claims 1, 2, 5
through 7 and 14. Our reasoning in support of these
determinations follows.
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