Appeal No. 2000-2256 Application No. 09/069,377 As evidence of anticipation, the examiner has applied the document specified below: Harvey 5,211,491 May 18, 1993 The following rejection is the sole rejection before us for review. 1 Claims 34 and 35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as being anticipated by Harvey. The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper No. 11), while the complete statement of appellants' argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 9 and 13). 1A terminal disclaimer (Paper No. 10) was accepted by the examiner (answer, page 2), overcoming double patenting rejections set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 7) which were not repeated in the answer. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007