Ex Parte Ball - Page 5




              Appeal No. 2003-0223                                                                  Page 5                
              Application No. 09/777,647                                                                                  


              (pages 6 and 7) and  the Reply Brief (pages 3-7).  Therefore, the examiner clearly has                      
              not met the burden of establishing a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the                     
              subject matter recited in claim 5.   This being the case, the rejection is fatally defective,               
              and we will not sustain it.                                                                                 

























                                                     CONCLUSION                                                           
                     The rejection is not sustained.                                                                      








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