Appeal No. 2000-0193
Application No. 08/627,010
Claims 1-3, 5, 10-14, 16, 21, and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Ligtenberg and Tsukagoshi.
Claims 4 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Ligtenberg, Tsukagoshi, and Graf.
Claims 6, 8, 17, and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ligtenberg, Tsukagoshi, and Mack.
Claims 7, 9, and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Ligtenberg, Tsukagoshi, Mack, and Scorse.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed Nov. 28, 1997) and the Examiner's Answer
(mailed Nov. 9, 1998) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (filed Sep.
25, 1998) and the Reply Brief (filed Jan. 6, 1999) for appellants' position with respect to
the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
The section 103 rejection of independent claims 1 and 12, in view of the combined
teachings of Ligtenberg and Tsukagoshi, is set forth on pages 5 and 6 of the Answer.
Appellants' position, as set forth in the Brief and Reply Brief, is that the combination is not
well founded. Additionally, as expanded in the Reply Brief, appellants allege that the
combination would not have suggested the claimed feature of applying the modified
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