Appeal No. 2000-0014
Application No. 08/747,927
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Krambeck et al 4,640,463 Feb. 3, 1987
(Krambeck)
Tsai 4,792,436 Dec. 20, 1988
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Krambeck in view of Tsai.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the office action
dated September 15, 1997 and the answer (Paper Nos. 7 and 15),
while the complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found
in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 14 and 16).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue raised
in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
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