Appeal No. 2004-0012
Application No. 10/057,614
over Tatsuzo.1 Claims 7 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Tatsuzo in view of Ozawa.
Also, claims 15, 16, 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Tatsuzo in view of Park.
Finally, claim 10 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Tatsuzo in view of Shima.
Appellants submit that "[f]or purposes of this appeal, each
of claims 2-26 stands or falls together with claim 1" (page 2 of
principal brief, last paragraph). Accordingly, all the appealed
claims stand or fall together with claim 1, and we will limit our
consideration to the examiner's rejection of claim 1 over
Tatsuzo. We note that appellants have not contested the separate
§ 103 rejections over Tatsuzo in view of Ozawa, Park, and Shima,
respectively.
We have thoroughly reviewed each of appellants' arguments
for patentability. However, we are in complete agreement with
the examiner that the claimed subject matter would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art within the meaning of
§ 103 in view of the applied prior art. Accordingly, we will
sustain the examiner's rejections for essentially those reasons
1 The statement of the rejection at page 4 of the Answer
incorrectly refers only to the rejection of claim 1.
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