Appeal No. 2002-2210
Application 09/553,295
Independent claims 1, 22 and 56 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims can be found in the
Appendix to appellant’s brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Howard et al. (Howard) 3,916,584 Nov. 4, 1975
Christianson et al. (Christianson) 5,888,119 Mar. 30, 1999
Claims 1 through 5, 8 through 16, 18 through 26, 29 through
37, 39 through 42 and 56 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Christianson.
Claims 6, 7, 17, 27, 28 and 38 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Christianson in
view of Howard.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full commentary
regarding the above-noted rejections and the conflicting
viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant regarding those
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No.
11, mailed June 18, 2002) for the reasoning in support of the
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