Appeal No. 2003-0220 Page 8
Application No. 09/478,871
limitation of a twelve-sided polygon and also stand rejected on the basis of lino and
Wessels.
Claims 4-6, 12-16 and 21-25 have been rejected as being unpatentable over lino
in view of Wessels and Ford. These claims require the twelve-sided polygons plus the
limitation that the polygons be contiguous along a common uncut side, a teaching for
which Ford is applied. However, Ford fails to overcome the shortcoming pointed out
above concerning the combined teachings of lino and Wessels, and therefore this
rejection also cannot be sustained.
CONCLUSION
Neither rejection is sustained.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
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