Appeal No. 1998-1382
Application No. 08/330,717
claims 1, 21, 32, 34, 36, and 38. In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d
1468, 1471-72, 223 USPQ 785, 787-88 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Since the remaining appealed claims all directly or
indirectly depend from these independent claims, it follows
that these dependent claims would also not have been prima
facie obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art. In re Fine,
837 F.2d 1071, 1076, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1600 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
In summary, we reverse the examiner’s § 103 rejections of
(i) appealed claims 1 through 4, 6 through 8, 11, 12, 20
through 22, 25 through 27, 30 through 42, and 45 as
unpatentable over Keilman in view of Erb, Sumitomo, and
Bacehowski, (ii) appealed claims 11 through 14 and 45 as
unpatentable over Keilman in view of Erb, Sumitomo,
Bacehowski, and Bonis, and (iii) appealed claims 15 through 19
as unpatentable over Keilman in view of Erb, Sumitomo,
Bacehowski, and Stanley.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
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