Appeal No. 2004-0459
Serial No. 09/652,997
Yoshida et al. (Honda)3 11-216781 Aug. 10, 1999
(Japanese patent application)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1 and 2 over O’Brien in view of Honda, Kuan, Harrington
and Case; claims 3, 4, 14 and 15 over O’Brien in view of Honda,
Kuan, Harrington, Case, Jenne, Bell and Voelkel; claims 16-19
over O’Brien in view of Honda, Kuan, Harrington, Case, Jenne,
Bell, Voelkel and Hirakawa; claim 20 over O’Brien in view of
Honda, Kuan, Harrington, Case, Yi Su and Hirakawa; and claims 5
and 6 over Nakamura in view of Honda, Kuan, Harrington and Case.
OPINION
We affirm the rejections of claims 1-4 and 14-20, and
reverse the rejection of claims 5 and 6.
The appellants state that they accept the examiner’s grouping
of claims (brief, page 6). Although additional references are
applied to claim 20, the appellants do not argue this claim
separately from claim 1 from which it depends (brief, page 10;
reply brief, page 8). Claim 20, therefore, stands or falls with
claim 1. Thus, we limit our discussion of the affirmed rejections
to one claim to which each of the affirmed rejections other than
3 The examiner and the appellants refer to this reference as
“Honda”. For consistency, we likewise do so.
4
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