Appeal No. 2004-0531
Application 09/871/126
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. 7 and 10), while the
complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found in the
brief (Paper No. 9).
In the brief (page 4), appellants state that claims 1
through 6, 8, 9, 10 through 12, 14, and 15 stand together, and
that claims 7 and 13 stand separately. In light of the above and
the argument presented, we select claims 1 and 7 for review, with
the respective remaining claim(s) of each of the above groupings
standing or falling therewith.
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues raised
in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellants’ specification and claims, the applied teachings,1 and
1 In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art. See
In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966).
Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into account not
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