Appeal No. 2004-0737
Application No. 10/141,443
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which
appears in “Appendix A” of the main brief (Paper No. 11).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Duryee et al. 4,890,753 Jan. 2, 1990
(Duryee)
Harding et al. 5,829,231 Nov. 3, 1998
(Harding)
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 through 37 and 60 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Harding in view of Duryee.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper
No. 12), while the complete statement of appellants’ argument can
be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 11 and 13).
In the main brief (page 13), appellants group the claims as
follows:
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