Ex parte WHITTEMORE et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 2001-2229                                                        
          Application No. 09/346,226                                                  


          obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having               
          ordinary skill in the art.                                                  
               Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.               
          § 103(a) rejection of claims 1 and 8, and dependent claims 6                
          and 16, as being unpatentable over Dixon in view of Ashmore,                
          Rosenblatt and Watanabe.                                                    


                                      SUMMARY                                         
               The decision of the examiner to reject claims 1, 6, 8 and              
          16 is reversed.                                                             


                                      REVERSED                                        
















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