Appeal No. 2002-0981
Application 09/005,895
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1, 3, 5, 12, 13, 16-20, 25 and 30 over MacKay in view of
Zhou and Wood; claims 2 and 21 over MacKay in view of Zhou, Wood
and Pennisi; and claims 35-42 over MacKay in view of Zhou, Wood
and Dery.
OPINION
We reverse the rejections of claims 1-3, 5, 12, 13, 16-21
and 35-40, and affirm the rejections of claims 25, 30, 41 and 42.
The appellant states that the claims stand or fall in the
following groups: 1) claims 1-3, 5, 35 and 36; 2) claims 12, 13,
16, 17, 37 and 38; 3) claims 18-21, 39 and 40; and 4) claims 25,
30, 41 and 42 (brief, pages 3-4). Although an additional
reference is applied to claims 41 and 42, the appellants do not
argue the rejection of these claims separately from the rejection
of independent claim 25 from which they depend. We therefore
limit our discussion of the affirmed rejection to claim 25. See
In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2
(Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997). As for the
reversed rejections, we need to address only the independent
claims to which these rejections apply, i.e., claims 1, 12
and 18.
3
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007