Appeal No. 1998-1364
Application 08/722,384
Claims 1-4, 6, 7, 10, and 14-20 stand rejected under2
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Huck.
Claims 5, 11-13, and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Huck.
Claims 8, 9, and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Huck and Inoue.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 5) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 11) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position, and to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 10)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for Appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
Claims 1 and 10-13
The Examiner finds that "Huck et al.[] disclose a
pressure sensor teaching the features of the claimed invention
including: a sensing structure having a first location with
zero bending (col. 3, lines 1-17), [and] a set of first
Claim 10 has been inadvertently omitted from the2
Examiner's statements of the rejection. However, since it is
mentioned in the discussion of the anticipation rejection
(Final Rejection, p. 2), we include it in this claim grouping.
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