Appeal No. 2003-1362
Application No. 09/178,399
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Swartzendruber 4,044,920 Aug. 30, 1977
Spoor 4,217,785 Aug. 19, 1980
Yano et al. (Yano) 4,375,838 Mar. 08, 1983
Yoshida et al. (Yoshida) 4,964,734 Oct. 23, 1990
Golecki et al. (Golecki) 5,348,774 Sep. 20, 1994
Piroozmandi 5,770,823 Jun. 23, 1998
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Golecki in view of Yoshida, Yano, Spoor,
Piroozmandi, and Swartzendruber.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 30,
mailed September 12, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejection, and to appellant's Brief (Paper
No. 29, filed August 22, 2002) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 31,
filed November 13, 2002) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that appellant indicates on
page 7 of the Brief that the claims do not stand or fall
together. However, appellant has provided no separate argument
for any claim. 37 C.F.R. § 1.192(c)(7) states:
For each ground of rejection which appellant
contests and which applies to a group of two or more
claims, the Board shall select a single claim from the
group and shall decide the appeal as to the ground of
rejection on the basis of that claim alone unless a
statement is included that the claims of the group do
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