Appeal No. 2003-0717 Page 3
Application No. 09/549,118
Claims 11, 19 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Koenig in view of Masuzawa.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 17, mailed May 8, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to the brief (Paper No. 15, filed February 22, 2002) and reply brief
(Paper No. 18, filed July 9, 2002) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants' specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we make the determinations which follow.
The indefiniteness rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph.
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