Ex parte VERMEERSCH et al. - Page 7

                 Appeal No. 1998-3012                                                                                                              
                 Application 08/751,764                                                                                                            

                 appellants’ countervailing evidence of and argument for nonobviousness and conclude that the claimed                              
                 invention encompassed by appealed claims 1 through 4 and 6 through 14 would have been obvious as                                  
                 a matter of law under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).                                                                                         
                         The examiner’s decision is affirmed.                                                                                      
                         No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may be extended                            
                 under 37 CFR § 1.136(a).                                                                                                          
                                                                  AFFIRMED                                                                         











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