Appeal No. 1997-2837 Page 3
Application No. 08/377,365
and the examiner. In so doing, we find ourselves in
substantially complete agreement with the examiner’s factual
findings as well as the examiner’s conclusion that the applied
references establish the obviousness, within the meaning of
35 U.S.C. § 103, of the claimed subject matter for reasons as set
forth in the answer. Moreover, we agree with the examiner’s
rebuttal of appellants’ arguments as set forth in the answer.
Accordingly, we will sustain the examiner’s § 103 rejections and
we add the following for emphasis only.
Rejection of Claims 1, 3-7, 9-11 and 13-18
Appellants have identified eight separate groups of claims,
seven of which pertain to the examiner’s first mentioned § 103
rejection (brief, pages 6-8). However, appellants have not
separately argued the patentability of each separate group of
claims, let alone each separate claim with any reasonable degree
of specificity with respect to the rejections that remain before
us. See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7) and (c)(8)(iv)(1995). In this
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