Appeal No. 2003-0192
Application No. 08/871,300
Independent claims 20 and 21 are representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims is appended
to appellant's brief.
The only prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Goetz '379 4,919,379 Apr. 24, 1990
In addition to the foregoing prior art reference, the
examiner has also relied upon applicant's admitted prior art
(hereinafter the APA) shown in Figure 1 of the application and
described on pages 1, 3 and 4 of the specification.
Claims 20 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over the APA in view of Goetz '379.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full commentary
regarding the above-noted rejection and the conflicting
viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant regarding the
rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No.
25, mailed July 22, 2002) for the reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to appellant's brief (Paper No. 24, filed May 30,
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