Appeal No. 1997-1577 Page 3
Application No. 07/941,466
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Rymer 3,801,720 Apr. 02, 1974
Thompson 4,823,287 Apr. 18, 1989
Dawson et al. (Dawson) 4,876,651 Oct. 24, 1989
Seki et al. (Seki) 5,444,618 Aug. 22, 1995
(Filed: Jul. 24, 1992)
Claims 1-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Dawson in view of Seki, Thompson, and Rymer.
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. 19, mailed December 3, 1996) for the examiner’s complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the appellants’
brief (Paper No. 18, filed October 8, 1996) for the
appellants’ arguments thereagainst. Only those arguments
actually made by the appellants have been considered in this
decision. Arguments which the appellants could have made but
chose not to make in the briefs have not been considered. See
37 CFR 1.192(a).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have
carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the
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