Appeal No. 1998-2924
Application NO. 08/276,290
Appellants' Brief1 and Examiner's Answer2 for the respective
details thereof.
OPINION
With full consideration being given the subject matter on
appeal, the Examiner's rejection and the arguments of
Appellants and Examiner, for the reasons stated infra, we will
affirm the Examiner's rejection of claims 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 24,
25 and 28 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
combination of Appellants' admitted prior art, Tanabe and
Sagara. We will reverse the Examiner's rejection of claims 5,
6, 9, 10, 12-23, 26, 27, 29, 31 and 32.
Before consideration of Appellants' substantive
arguments, we first address procedural matters related to
Appellants' claim grouping. Initially, on page 28 of the
1 Appellants filed an Appeal Brief ("Brief") on
December 29, 1997.
2 The Examiner, in response to Appellants' Brief, filed an
Examiner's Answer on March 17, 1998.
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