Appeal No. 2002-0236
Application No. 08/911,494
Claims 1 and 6 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Katayama in view of Minagawa.
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Katayama in view of Minagawa as applied
to claim 1 above, and further in view of Yoshino.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's explanation of the
above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding those rejections, we make
reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 20, mailed August
17, 2001) for the examiner's reasoning in support of the
rejections, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 19, filed June
13, 2001) and reply brief (Paper No. 21, filed January 4, 2002)
for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
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