Appeal No. 2001-2616
Application No. 09/101,704
Claims 14 through 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over the German reference (DE-
‘847) in view of Orbach.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer
(Paper No. 29), while the complete statement of appellant’s
argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos.
28 and 31).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the issues raised in this
appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellant’s specification and claims, the applied teachings,3
3In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA
1966). Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into
account not only the specific teachings, but also the
inferences which one skilled in the art would reasonably have
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