Appeal No. 2003-0808 Application No. 09/343,334 III. the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) of appealed claims 1 through 4, 6 through 12, 26, and 28 as unpatentable over Cupples in view of Wu is affirmed; and IV. the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) of appealed claim 25 as unpatentable over “Cupples [] in view of Wu [] as applied to claims 1-4, 6-12, 26 and 28 above and/or claims 1-8, 10-12 and 27 as applied to Sauer [] in view of Wu []above, and further in view of Van Dyck Fear []” is affirmed. The decision of the examiner to reject the appealed claims is therefore affirmed in part. 13Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007