Appeal No. 1998-2890
Application No. 08/811,142
Claims 5 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over appellants' "Prior Art" Fig. 2.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejections,
we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 22) for the complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 20 and 24) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues before
us, we have given careful consideration to appellants'
specification and claims, to the applied "Prior Art" Figs. 1 and
2, and to the respective viewpoints of appellants and the
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