Appeal No. 2002-1140
Application No. 08/947,470
be equivalents (Answer at 10), the rejection has no teaching from the prior art to show
that the artisan considered the structures to be equivalents.
We therefore cannot sustain the rejection of claims 5 and 15-20 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the APA, Deeran, Furukawa, and Bonsall.
CONCLUSION
The rejection of claims 5 and 15-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
REVERSED
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