Appeal No. 2001-0025
Application No. 08/751,980
Claims 9 through 12 and 21 through 30 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over JP ‘237 in
view of Goodyear.
Claims 13, 14, and 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over JP ‘237 in view of Goodyear and
Stehle.
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellant appears in the office
action dated September 2, 1998 and the answer (Paper Nos. 18
and 29), while the complete statement of appellant’s argument
can be found in the brief (Paper No. 28).
In the Grouping of Claims section of the brief (page 5),
appellant groups the claims on appeal as follows. As to the
first ground of rejection, claims 9 through 12 and 21 through
28 are indicated to stand or fall together, while claims 29
and 30 are considered to be separately patentable and do not
stand or fall with the former claims. With respect to the
second ground of rejection, appellant specifies that claims
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