Appeal No. 2003-0460
Application No. 09/783,428
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Ozawa 5,197,436 Mar. 30, 1993
Kato 5,598,827 Feb. 4, 1997
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Kato in view of Ozawa.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the final
rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 6 and 9), while the complete
statement of appellant’s argument can be found in the main and
reply briefs (Paper Nos. 8 and 10).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue raised
in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
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