Appeal No. 2004-1546
Application No. 09/030,989
CITED PRIOR ART
As evidence of unpatentability, the Examiner relies on the following
references:
Schenk 5,444,626 Aug. 22, 1995
Dais et al. (Dais) 5,524,213 Jun. 4, 1996
Sites et al. (Sites) 5,730,720 Mar. 24, 1998
(filed Aug. 18, 1995)
Omori 5,820,414 Oct. 13, 1998
(filed Jun. 13, 1996)
The Examiner rejected claims 16 to 38 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as obvious over the combined teachings of Dias and Omori
together or in combination with Sites and Schenk; claims 23 and 30 under
the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as
being unpatentable over claims 1 to 15 of U.S. Patent 5,813,972; and claims
23 to 38 under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double
patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 and 6 to 8 of U.S. Patent
5,813,972 in view of Sites.
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