Appeal No. 2001-0378 Page 17
Application No. 08/873,876
the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1 to 3, 7 to 11 and 15
to 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed.
The obviousness rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of dependent claims 4
to 6 and 12 to 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 for the reasons set
forth above with respect to their parent claims. In that
regard, we note that in the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
before us in this appeal the examiner has not found the
difference identified above between Pendergast and claims 1
and 9 to have been obvious at the time the invention was made
to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
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