Ex Parte Kozakura et al - Page 8

          Appeal No. 2004-1227                                                        
          Application No. 09/940,311                                                  


          See W.L. Gore & Assoc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553,               
          220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851           
          (1984).  We cannot sustain, therefore, the examiner’s § 103                 
          rejection of claims 1 and 2 as being unpatentable over the                  
          admitted prior art of Figures 20 and 21 in view of Tada.                    
               The decision of the examiner is reversed.                              
                                      REVERSED                                        



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          BRG:svt                                                                     


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