Appeal No. 2002-1782 Page 2
Application No. 08/709,354
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a method for registering a component lead.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which has been reproduced below.
The single prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting
the appealed claims is:
Sakemi 5,713,126 Feb. 3, 1998
(filed June 28, 1996)
Claims 1-4 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated
by Sakemi.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 31) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Brief (Paper No. 30) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 32) for the appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art reference, and to the
1A rejection of claims 1-4 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, was withdrawn in the
Answer.
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