Appeal No. 1998-2804
Application No. 08/398,881
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants and the
examiner we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the3 4
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have considered the rejections advanced by the examiner and
the supporting arguments. We have, likewise reviewed the
appellants’ arguments set forth in the briefs.
We affirm.
At the outset, we note that of all the issues stated on pages
8 and 9 of the brief only issue number III remains for this appeal.
Moreover, only claims 8-13, 17-18, 21 and 35-39 are left for
appeal. We will only discuss these claims in our decision. We
also note that appellants elect these claims not to stand or fall
together (brief at page 9). We will analyze the claims as
necessitated by the arguments in the brief and the reply briefs.
The examiner’s position regarding claims 8-13, 18 and 35-39 is
that Swidler teaches cleaning and applying a strippable coating to
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