Ex Parte Higuchi et al - Page 7

                  Appeal No. 2003-1426                                                                                        Page 7                      
                  Application No. 09/635,638                                                                                                              


                           The limitations discussed above also are present in independent claims 13 and                                                  
                  24, and we thus will not sustain the like rejection of these claims, or of depending                                                    
                  claims 14, 16-21, 23, 25-31 and 33.                                                                                                     
                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                              
                           The rejection is not sustained.                                                                                                
                           The decision of the examiner is reversed.                                                                                      







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