Appeal No. 2003-1920
Application No. 09/538,455
one or more membrane or cartridge filters connected to said
and located proximate the sample point and between said sample
point location and said stream switching portion.
PRIOR ART
The examiner relies on the following prior art references:
Upchurch 4,846,218 Jul. 11, 1989
Higdon et al. (Higdon) 6,102,068 Aug. 15, 2000
(Filed Sept. 23, 1997)
REJECTION
Claims 1 through 12, 20, 21 and 23 through 30 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by the disclosure of
Higdon. Claims 13 through 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Higdon and
Upchurch.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
prior art, including all of the arguments advanced by both the
examiner and the appellants in support of their respective
positions. As a consequence of this review, we have made the
determinations which follow.
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