Appeal No. 2003-1363
Application No. 09/608,985
Claims 4, 16, and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Miller.
Claims 12 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Miller in view of Wollman.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper
No. 16), while the complete statement of appellants' argument can
be found in the brief (Paper No. 11).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the issues raised in this
appeal, this panel of the Board has carefully considered
appellants' specification, drawings,1 and claims,2 the applied
1 The matter of the disapproval by the examiner of the
"clarification drawings and substitute specification" (brief,
pages 3 through 5) is an issue reviewed by petition not appeal.
We would only add that 37 CFR § 1.83(a) should be complied with
relative to the claimed subject matter.
2 In claim 19, line 5, "loops" should be --loop-- for
consistency with its antecedent basis. This matter should be
addressed during any further prosecution before the examiner.
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