Appeal No. 1998-1824
Application No. 08/463,383
a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper
No. 8).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
Linne 4,269,802 May 26, 1981
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Linne.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 9), while the complete statement of appellants’
argument can be found in the brief (Paper No. 8).1
1In the brief (page 1), no indication is given of any
related appeals or interferences. However, we have become
aware that in appellants’ parent Application No. 07/993,718, a
decision of the Board of Appeals and Interferences in Appeal
No. 97-0082 (Paper No. 37) bears upon the method issue raised
in the current appeal, as discussed more fully, infra.
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