Appeal No. 2003-0106
Application 09/502,680
specification as being Admitted Prior Art (hereinafter, the APA).
Claims 21, 22 and 27 through 29 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Shannon.
Claims 21 through 23 and 25 through 29 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the APA in view of
Shannon.
Claim 24 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over the APA in view of Shannon as applied to claims
28 and 23 above, and further in view of Pistole.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to 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. 13, mailed June 11, 2002) for the reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No.
11, filed May 7, 2002) for the arguments thereagainst.
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