Appeal No. 2000-1782
Application No. 08/933,639
The item relied on by the appellants as evidence of non-
obviousness is:
The 37 CFR § 1.132 Declaration of Gregory J. Kevorkian, filed
August 5, 1998 (part of Paper No. 3).
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1 through 4, 7 and 18 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter the
appellants regard as the invention.
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Joyner in view of Saigne and
Bright.
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Joyner in view of Saigne,
Bright and Rohrig.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and
supplemental briefs and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No.
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