Appeal No. 2000-1514 Page 11
Application No. 09/038,450
§ 103 is, of course, impermissible. See, for example, W. L.
Gore and Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553,
220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S.
851 (1984). It follows that we cannot sustain the examiner's
rejections of claims 1 to 12 and 14 to 17.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 19 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed and the
decision
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