Appeal No. 2003-0124
Application No. 09/487,832
up the subject matter of claims 2-4 and 9 to induce the Examiner
to issue the patent because these claims were indicated by the
Examiner as allowable. Therefore, we will not sustain the
Examiner's rejection of claims 23-45 under 35 U.S.C. § 251.
In view of the foregoing, we have sustained the Examiner's
rejection of claim 31 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.
However, we have not sustained the Examiner's rejection of claims
42-45 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, the rejection of
claims 23-30 and 32-45 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
the rejection of claims 23 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and the
rejection of claims 23-45 under 35 U.S.C. § 251.
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