Appeal No. 2000-2036
Application 08/897,484
Appellant’s arguments that the conductor 13 of Szabo is
within the shell cavity and does not produce a magnetic field on
the outside are arguments which were not presented before the
examiner in the appeal brief. The Board does not consider
arguments in a request for rehearing which were not made in the
original brief because we do not have the benefit of the
examiner’s position with respect to these new arguments.
Therefore, we will not consider appellant’s arguments near the
bottom of the request for rehearing.
In summary, we have carefully considered the arguments
raised by appellant in the request for rehearing, but we can find
no errors in our original decision. We are still of the view
that the invention set forth in claim 4 is anticipated by the
disclosure of Szabo.
We have granted appellant’s request to the extent that we
have reconsidered our decision of August 21, 2002, but we deny
the request with respect to making any changes therein.
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