Ex Parte TORII - Page 7




            Appeal No. 2003-0471                                                          Page 7              
            Application No. 09/100,346                                                                        


            See, for example, W. L. Gore and Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553,             
            220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).                         
                   For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject                    
            independent claims 15 and 17, and claims 9, 10, 13, 14, 16 and 18 to 21 dependent                 
            thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.                                                       


































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