Appeal No. 2000-1759
Application No. 08/748,637
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims may be found in the Appendix to appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Choudhury 4,140,126 Feb. 20, 1979
Kononov SU 660689 May 5, 1979
(Russian Inventor's Certificate)1
Claims 39 through 42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Choudhury in view of Kononov.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of the
above-noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellant regarding the rejection, we make
reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 31, mailed May 19,
2000) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
appellant' brief (Paper No. 29, filed March 2, 2000) and reply
brief (Paper No. 34, filed July 27, 2000) for the arguments
thereagainst.
1 Our understanding of this foreign language document is
based on a translation apparently submitted by appellant.
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