Appeal No. 2004-0063
Application 09/767,359
appeal and will decide the appeal with regard to that claim
alone. In accord with appellant’s grouping of claims, claims 2
through 15 will stand or fall with our determination regarding
independent claim 1.
0PINION
Having carefully reviewed the anticipation and obviousness
issues raised in this appeal in light of the record before us, we
have come to the conclusion that the examiner's various
rejections of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) will be sustained. Our reasoning in support
of this determination follows.
The embodiment best reflective of appellant’s claimed
subject matter is that seen in Figures 5A and 5B of the
application, which figures show a carrier tape (302), a plurality
of pockets (304), depressed portions (306) formed in between each
of the plurality of pockets, and longitudinally extending bonding
zones exemplified by (330) where a cover tape (not shown) will be
bonded to the carrier tape on opposite sides of the plurality of
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