Appeal No. 1999-2691
Application No. 08/590,348
apparatus. The control circuitry 111 through 113 in
Higashitsutsumi is incapable of performing any of the functions
ascribed to it by the examiner (answer, page 5). For these
reasons, the 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim 4 is reversed.
The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claims 5 and 6 is reversed
because the teachings of Hasegawa ‘114 do not cure the noted
shortcomings in the teachings of Hirota and Higashitsutsumi.
DECISION
The decision of the examiner rejecting claim 7 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) is affirmed, and the decision of the examiner rejecting
claims 4 through 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is reversed.
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner is affirmed-in-part.
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