Appeal No. 2001-1378
Application No. 08/832,571
Grounds of Rejection
Claims 1-9, 15-16, 22-30 and 33-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
obvious over Hu in view of Kapeller, Varticovski and Aronheim. We affirm this
rejection.
Claims 1-9, 15-16, 22-30 and 33-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
obvious over Klippel 93 and 94 in view of Kapeller, Varticovski and Aronheim. We
reverse this rejection.
Grouping of Claims
According to appellants, there are two groupings of claims. Group 1 includes
claims 1-9, 15-16, 22-30 and 33-34. Group II includes claims 31 and 32 which the
examiner has indicated contain allowable subject matter. We decide this appeal on the
basis of claim 1 as representative of claims 1-9, 15-16, 22-30 and 33-34.
DISCUSSION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the
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