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                    Appeal No. 1997-2510                                                                                                    
                    Application No. 07/868,539                                                                                              

                            Summerton, however, fails to make up for the deficiency in the                                                  
                    combination of Vickers in view of Sakata, Metzler, Uhlmann and Inouye; or                                               
                    Bielinska, in view of Sakata, Uhlmann and Inouye.  See supra.                                                           
                            Accordingly we reverse the rejection of claims 4 and 9 under 35 U.S.C.                                          
                    § 103 as obvious over Vickers, in view of Sakata, Metzler, Uhlmann and Inouye;                                          
                    or Bielinska, in view of Sakata, Uhlmann and Inouye, further in view of                                                 
                    Summerton.                                                                                                              
                                            REVERSED, VACATED and REMANDED                                                                  


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