Appeal No. 2001-0609
Application No. 08/903,484
Claim 16 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over applicants' prior art Figure 1A in
view of Dougherty '358.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of the
above-noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and appellants regarding the rejection, we
make reference to the Office action mailed September 22, 1999
(Paper No. 10, the final rejection) and the examiner's answer
(Paper No. 23, mailed October 25, 2000) for the reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No.
21, filed September 1, 2000) and reply brief (Paper No. 25,
filed December 27, 2000) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to appellants' specification and claim
16, to the applied prior art, and to the respective positions
articulated by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we have made the determination that the
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