Appeal No. 2000-2288
Application No. 08/960,576
Accordingly, we will not sustain the examiner's rejection of
dependent claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
To summarize our decision, we note that 1) the examiner's
rejection of claim 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
has not been sustained, 2) the examiner's rejection of claims
1 through 5 and 7 through 24 under § 103(a) as being obvious
over Burton in view of Plaisted '958 has not been sustained,
and
3) the examiner's rejection of claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) based on Burton in view of Plaisted '958 and Werthmann
has not been sustained.
As should be apparent from the foregoing, the decision of
the examiner rejecting claims 1 through 24 of the present
application is, accordingly, reversed.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new grounds of rejection.
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