Appeal No. 1996-3846
Application No. 08/251,649
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Miyamoto 4,616,342 Oct. 7, 1986
Ogiue et al. (Ogiue) 4,713,796 Dec. 15, 1987
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Watanabe et al.(Watanabe) JP 61-142594 Jun. 30, 1986
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ogiue
in view of Miyamoto. Claim 37 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as being
anticipated by Watanabe.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 39, mailed Dec. 19, 1995), and supplemental examiner's answer
(Paper No. 54, mailed Jun. 28, 2000) for the examiner's reasoning in support of the
rejections, and to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 38, filed Jul. 24, 1995), reply brief
(Paper No. 42, filed Feb. 20, 1996) and supplemental reply brief (Paper No. 55, filed Aug.
28, 2000) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
1Translation by Schreiber Translations, Inc. Feb. 2000. All citations to Watanabe are to this
translation
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