Appeal No. 2004-2044
Application No. 09/476,708
Claim 70 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
obvious over the combination of Wood et al. and Reeder and
Official Notice and admitted prior art.
Claims 74-76 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
obvious over the combination of Wood et al.
Claims 77-78 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
obvious over the combination of Wood et al. and Official Notice.
Throughout our opinion, we make references to the
Appellants' briefs, and to the Examiner's Answer for the
respective details thereof.1
OPINION
With full consideration being given to the subject matter on
appeal, the Examiner's rejections and the arguments of the
Appellants and the Examiner, for the reasons stated infra, we
reverse the Examiner's rejection of claims 59-64 and 66-78 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
Appellants have indicated that for purposes of this appeal,
the claims stand or fall together in eleven groupings:2
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on September 12, 2003.
Appellants filed a reply brief on December 29, 2003. The
Examiner mailed out an Examiner's Answer on October 21, 2003.
2 Appellants state that Groups II-VI, VIII, and X-XI, each
"stand with [their] independent claim, or will fall separately."
We interpret this statement of Appellants as "stand or fall
separately."
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