Appeal No. 2000-1844 Page 2
Application No. 08/506,794
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a method of vision
correction. A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in
the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
L'Esperance, Jr. 4,729,372 March 8, 1988
(L'Esperance)
Ruiz 5,533,997 July 9,
1996
Claims 1, 2, 4 to 11 and 21 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over L'Esperance in view of Ruiz.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 20,
mailed October 4, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 19,
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