Appeal No. 2002-0095
Application No. 09/378,051
respective copies of which are appended to the main brief (Paper
No. 11).
As evidence of anticipation, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
Bernhardt 5,308,061 May 3, 1994
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 7 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Bernhardt.2
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer (Paper
No. 12), while the complete statement of appellant’s argument can
be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 11 and 13).
2 In error, both the final rejection (Paper No. 7, page 2)
and the answer (Paper No. 12, page 2) indicate claims 1 through
18 as being under rejection when the application file reveals
that claims 1 through 6 were canceled (Paper No. 6) prior to the
final rejection and the cover sheet of the final rejection
correctly indicates that claims 7 through 18 are rejected.
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