Appeal No. 2000-0201 Application No. 08/691,330 be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 3, and 4, respective copies of which appear in “APPENDIX A” of the main brief (Paper No. 20). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the documents listed below: Okubo 5,369,585 Nov. 29, 1994 Yoshino 5,378,052 Jan. 03, 1995 The following rejection is before us for review. Claims 1 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Yoshino in view of Okubo. The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to the argument presented by appellants appears in the final rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 15 and 21), while the complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 20 and 22). 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007