Appeal No. 1998-1298
Application 08/544,962
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Goodman, Moser, Dreffein, or Abraham in view
of Foster ‘686, Klein, and Foster ‘678.
Claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, and 14 stand rejected under
the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double
patenting as being unpatentable over claims of U.S. Patent No.
5,588,522 (Foster ‘522).
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
and the response to the Remand (Paper Nos. 16 and 27), while
the complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found in
the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 15 and 17).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the issues raised in this
appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
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