Appeal No. 2003-2034
Application No. 09/667,727
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Koyama et al. 6,234,800 May 22, 2001
(Koyama) (filed Jun. 21, 1999)
Ichizawa et al. 7-92897 Apr. 7, 1995
(Japan) (Honda)1
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Honda in view of Koyama.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the final
rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 9 and 13), while the
complete statement of appellants' argument can be found in the
main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 11 and 15).
1 Our understanding of this foreign language document is
derived from a reading of a machine-assisted translation thereof
prepared in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A
copy of the translation is appended to this opinion.
2
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