Appeal No. 2002-2015 Page 3
Application No. 09/232,138
March 26, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejections, and to appellant's brief (Paper No. 19, filed
January 7, 2002) and reply brief (Paper No. 21, filed May 3,
2002) for appellant's arguments thereagainst. Only those
arguments actually made by appellant have been considered in this
decision. Arguments which appellant could have made but chose
not to make in the brief have not been considered. See 37 CFR
1.192(a).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have carefully
considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejections advanced
by the examiner, and the evidence of anticipation and obviousness
relied upon by the examiner as support for the rejections. We
have, likewise, reviewed and taken into consideration, in
reaching our decision, appellant's arguments set forth in the
briefs along with the examiner's rationale in support of the
rejections and arguments in rebuttal set forth in the examiner's
answer. Upon consideration of the record before us, we affirm-
in-part.
We observe at the outset that appellant states (brief,
page 9) that “claim 6 is considered representative of all the
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