Appeal No. 1998-2866
Application No. 08/548,441
respective copies of which appear in the “Appendix A” of the main
brief (Paper No. 9).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has relied upon the
references listed below:
Johnson 4,722,621 Feb. 2, 1988
Obata 5,550,363 Aug. 27, 1996
(filed Feb. 24, 1994)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 through 11, and 13
through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Johnson.
Claims 4, 8, 12, and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Johnson, as applied to the claims
above, further in view of Obata.
The examiner’s rejections and response to the argument
presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper No. 10),
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