Ex parte POURRAT et al. - Page 11

                 Appeal No. 1997-2385                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/271,571                                                                                                             






                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                            
                          To summarize, the decision of the examiner (1) to reject claims 30-34 under 35                                                
                 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, for lack of enablement is reversed; (2) to reject claims                                                
                 30-34 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as indefinite is reversed; and, (3) to                                                  
                 reject claims 30-34 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over Palmer, Sugisawa or                                                    
                 Lioutas in view of appellants' admissions on page 1, lines 25-28 of the specification is                                               
                 reversed.                                                                                                                              
                                                                   REVERSED                                                                             






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