Appeal No. 2002-0027
Application No. 08/963,812
claim 18 can be construed to encompass a curved membrane like
that seen in Wood.
Since we have disagreed with the only argument presented by
appellant as to why the examiner’s rejection might have been
improper, it follows that we will sustain the examiner’s
rejection of claim 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Given appellant’s
grouping of the claims on page 5 of the brief, we consider that
claims 7 through 17 and 19 through 21 will fall with claim 18.
In accordance with the foregoing, the decision of the
examiner rejecting claims 7 through 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
is affirmed.
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