Ex Parte Clendenin - Page 7




          Appeal No. 2003-0966                                                        
          Application No. 09/496,486                                                  


               Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.               
          § 103(a) rejection of claim 1, or of claims 2-20 that depend                
          therefrom, as being unpatentable over Elson in view of “Prior Art”          
          Figure 1.                                                                   
               The decision of the examiner is reversed.                              
                                       REVERSED                                       



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