Appeal No. 2002-1970 Page 7
Application No. 09/072,333
For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the combined teachings of
McPherson and Bergvall are insufficient to establish that the differences between the
subject matter of claims 1 and 9 and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a
whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person of
ordinary skill in the art. It thus follows that we shall not sustain the rejection of claims 1
and 9 or claims 3-8 and 11-13 depending therefrom.
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