Appeal No. 2001-0313
Application 09/033,874
Independent claims 28, 32, 40, 45 and 48, as well as all of
the claims which depend therefrom, stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Arnhold.
Independent claims 26 and 34, as well as all of the claims
which depend therefrom, stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Arnhold in view of EP ‘698.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejections,
we refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 10, mailed October 28,
1999) and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 15, mailed August 9,
2000) for the reasoning in support of the above-noted rejections
and to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 14, filed May 22, 2000) for a
full exposition of the arguments thereagainst.
0PINION
Having carefully reviewed the obviousness issues raised in
this appeal in light of the record before us, we have come to the
conclusion that the examiner's rejections of the appealed claims
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are not well founded and will not be
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