Appeal No. 2003-0238
Application No. 08/886,349
Claims 1 through 23 and 25 through 51 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Greenfield Online in
view of Dacko and Alreck.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 31,
mailed July 30, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellant's Brief (Paper No.
30, filed June 6, 2002) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 32, filed
September 13, 2002) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that appellant has
indicated at page 2 of the Brief that the claims do not stand or
fall together and that they are argued according to groupings
that range from a single claim to all of the claims. As the
groupings for various arguments overlap, we will address each
argument and the claims appellant lists therefor.
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior
art references, and the respective positions articulated by
appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
will affirm the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 23 and
25 through 51.
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