Appeal No. 2002-0553
Application No. 09/391,782
copies of which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No.
10).
As evidence of anticipation, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
Briffe et al 6,038,498 Mar. 14, 2000
(Briffe) (filed Oct. 15, 1997)
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 2 through 6, 8, and 13 through 18 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Briffe.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper
No. 11), while the complete statement of appellants’ argument can
be found in the brief (Paper No. 10).
In the brief, appellants group the claims on appeal as
follows:
Group 1----claims 2 through 6, 8, and 13 which do not stand
together;
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