Appeal No. 1999-2674
Application No. 08/192,979
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Neefe 3,776,230 Dec. 04, 1973
Baron 4,461,294 Jul. 24, 1984
L’Esperance, Jr. 4,665,913 May 19, 1987
Sand 4,976,709 Dec. 11,
1990
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 59 through 63, 67, 68, and 71 stand rejected under
35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Sand in combination
with
L’Esperance and Neefe.
Claims 64 through 66, 69, 70, and 72 through 75 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Sand
in combination with L’Esperance and Neefe, as applied above,
further in view of Baron.
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer
(Paper No. 22), while the complete statement of appellant’S
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