Appeal No. 2002-1877
Application No. 09/290,742
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 7,
and 10, respective copies of which appear in APPENDIX "A" of the
main brief (Paper No. 19).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Orlandino et al 4,564,212 Jan. 14, 1986
(Orlandino)
Jindra et al 6,073,951 Jun. 13, 2000
(Jindra) (filed Sep. 30, 1998)
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 and 3 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Jindra in view of Orlandino.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the final
rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 16 and 20), while the
complete statement of appellant's argument can be found in the
main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 19 and 21).
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