Appeal No. 2001-2673 Application No. 09/299,470 Page 16 CONCLUSION To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1 through 17 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over the prior art, as represented by appellants’ figure 17, is reversed. REVERSED MICHAEL R. FLEMING ) Administrative Patent Judge ) ) ) ) ) BOARD OF PATENT JOSEPH L. DIXON ) APPEALS Administrative Patent Judge ) AND ) INTERFERENCES ) ) ) STUART S. LEVY ) Administrative Patent Judge ) SSL/kisPage: Previous 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007