Appeal No. 2002-0606 Page 5
Application No. 08/989,574
forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1 to 5, 15 to 17, 20 and 22
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed.
The obviousness rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of dependent claims 6 and 18 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 for the reason set forth above with respect to their parent claims. In that regard,
the examiner has not set forth any rationale as to why the above-noted limitation not
taught by Nobusato would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a
person of ordinary skill in the art. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 6 and 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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