Appeal No. 2000-0574
Application No. 08/876,321
rejection. See In re Fritch, 972 F.2d 1260, 1266, 23 USPQ2d
1780, 1784 (Fed. Cir. 1992).
For the foregoing reasons, we shall not sustain the
examiner's rejection of claim 1, and claims 8 and 9 which
depend from claim 1, as being unpatentable over Boughner in
view of Covington.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11-17 is affirmed as to claims 14-
17 and reversed as to claims 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11-13.
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