Appeal No. 1998-3398
Application No. 08/634,515
Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Hayashi in view of Morgan and
Cocke.
Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Hayashi in view of Rall and Cocke.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 21,
mailed May 11, 1998) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No.
20, filed April 22, 1998) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that appellants indicate
on page 6 of the Brief that the claims are to stand or fall
together. We will treat the claims according to two groups,
claims 1 through 11, with independent claim 1 as
representative, and claims 12 through 18, with independent
claim 12 as representative.
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
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