Appeal No. 1998-0277
Application No. 08/478,009
exemplary claims 20 and 25, copies of which appear in the
APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 10).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Windle 3,616,024 Oct. 26, 1971
Ziu ('088) 4,786,088 Nov. 22, 1988
Ziu ('260) 5,018,260 May 28, 1991
Lueghumer 5,188,697 Feb. 23, 1993
Butts et al. (Butts) 5,494,318 Feb. 27, 1996
(filed Dec. 15, 1994)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 20 through 25 and 29 through 33 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Windle in view of Ziu
'260 and either Ziu '088 or Butts.
Claims 29 through 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Windle in view of Ziu '260 and either Ziu
'088 or Butts, as applied above, further in view of Lueghamer.
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