Ex parte WATANABE et al. - Page 7




                  Appeal No. 1996-3846                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 08/251,649                                                                                                              


                  the invention as recited in claim 37 based upon the examiner’s statement of the basis of                                                
                  the rejection as recited in the supplemental answer.  Therefore, we cannot sustain the                                                  
                  examiner’s rejection of claim 37 based upon 35 U.S.C. § 102.                                                                            


                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                              

                           To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claim 1 under 35 U.S.C.     §                                             
                  103 is reversed, and the decision of the examiner to reject claim 37 under 35 U.S.C. § 102                                              
                  is reversed.                                                                                                                            
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              




                                             JERRY SMITH                                           )                                                      
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                                             LEE E. BARRETT                                        )     APPEALS                                          
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                                             JOSEPH L. DIXON                                       )                                                      
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