Appeal No. 2002-0635
Application No. 09/534,583
Finally, claims 44 through 49 and 51 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over appellants’ admitted prior
art Fig. 2, Hosozawa and Cameron.1
Rather that repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the brief and reply brief for
appellants’ positions and to the answer for the examiner’s
positions.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that because the answer does not
indicate the entry of the amended claims attached to or submitted
with the principal brief on appeal, the claims on appeal are
those claims that have been entered in accordance with the
Advisory action from the examiner mailed on March 7, 2001
permitting the entry of the amendment filed on February 23, 2001
upon the filing of the brief. Claim 32 reproduced above is
reflective of the version of that claim submitted in accordance
with that amendment after final entered by the examiner as noted
in the Advisory Office action. From our review of the version of
the claims submitted with the brief, our decisions on patent-
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1 The preexisting rejections of various claims under the 35
U.S.C. § 112, paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 have been withdrawn by the
examiner as noted at page 11 of the answer.
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