Appeal No. 2004-1892 Application No. 10/197,472 derived from a reading of exemplary claim 27, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 10). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the documents listed below: Muhlberger 4,815,410 Mar. 28, 1989 Vadney 5,839,388 Nov. 24, 1998 The following rejection is before us for review. Claims 27, 31, and 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Muhlberger in view of Vadney. The full text of the examiner's obviousness rejection and response to the argument presented by appellants appears in the final rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 6 and 11), while the complete statement of appellants' argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 10 and 12). 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007