Appeal No. 2000-1482 Page 19
Application No. 08/995,706
body section 63A and a pair of longitudinally extending bars
74 and 75 into which
are formed a pair of recesses 76 and 77 of longitudinal and
transverse dimensions precisely aligned to receive the lower
edges of the longitudinally extending quartz wafer cassette
bars 67. A plurality of securement pins 63B secure the
platforms 63 within the mounting edges 64 and relative to the
horizontal drive array 21.
Second, the examiner should determine whether or not any
of the pending claims are rejectable under the judicially
created doctrine of double patenting over any one of the
claims in U.S. Patent No. 5,730,575 which issued from this
application's parent application. 3
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 19 to 24 and 28 to 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed
3According to the appellants, the application under
appeal is a continuation of Application No. 08/631,381, filed
April 11, 1996, now U.S. Patent No. 5,730,575.
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