Appeal No. 2002-2148 Page 12
Application No. 09/627,143
the appellants in the briefs. Moreover, this limitation is not suggested by the other
applied prior art (i.e., Sue and Prevey).
Since all the limitations of claim 14, and claims 15 to 19 dependent thereon, are
not taught or suggested by the applied prior art for the reasons set forth above, the
decision of the examiner to reject claims 14 to 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1, 2 and 8 under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is affirmed; the decision of the examiner to reject claims 3 to 7 and 9
to 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed; and the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 14 to 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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