Appeal No. 2002-1151
Application No. 09/324,835
As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner
has applied the documents listed below:
Teraoka et al 4,928,229 May 22, 1990
(Teraoka)
Oshita et al 9-147184 Jun. 6, 1997
(Oshita)(Japan)1
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1, 2, 11, 12, 22, and 23 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Oshita.
Claims 3 through 10, and 13 through 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Oshita in view of
Teraoka.
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer (Paper
No. 21), while the complete statement of appellant’s argument can
be found in the brief (Paper No. 17).
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1 Our understanding of this foreign language document is
derived from a reading of a translation thereof prepared in the
United States Patent and Trademark Office and which is of record
in this application.
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