Appeal No. 2003-0085
Application No. 09/463,925
action is described on pages 6-8 of the specification.
Independent claims 12 and 22 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims can be found in the
Appendix to appellants' brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Fijioka et al. (Fijioka) 5,545,929 Aug. 13, 1996
Claims 12 through 16, 18, 20 through 26, 30 and 31 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Fijioka.
Claims 18 and 28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Fijioka.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's commentary regarding
the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints
advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding those
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No.
15, mailed June 28, 2002) for the reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 14, filed June 4,
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