Appeal No. 2002-0352
Application 09/374,205
claim 1, which claim is representative of the subject matter
before us on appeal. A copy of claim 1 can be found in the
Appendix to appellant’s brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the claims on appeal are:
Gilbert 5,121,544 Jun. 16, 1992
Gringer 5,813,121 Sept. 29,
1998
(filed Jun. 17, 1996)
Claims 1 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Gilbert in view of Gringer.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's specific statements
regarding the above-noted rejection and the conflicting
viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant regarding
that rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer
(Paper No. 12, mailed July 6, 2001) for the reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellant’s brief (Paper No.
11, filed April 23, 2001) and reply brief (Paper No. 13, filed
August 28, 2001) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
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