Appeal No. 2005-0095
Application No. 10/127,776
CITED PRIOR ART
As evidence of unpatentability, the Examiner relies on the following
references:
Niedbala 5,017,365 May 21, 1991
Znaiden et al. (Znaiden) 5,425,938 June 20, 1995
Tsunetsugu et al. (Tsunetsugu) WO 00/61083 Oct. 19, 2000
The Examiner entered the following rejections:
Claims 1 to 7, 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as
obvious over Niedbala and Tsuntsugu; and claims 1 to 5, 8 and 9 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as obvious over Niedbala and Znaiden.
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and applied
prior art, including all of the arguments advanced by both the Examiner
and Appellants in support of their respective positions. This review leads us
to conclude that the Examiner’s § 103 rejections are well founded. See In
re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992); In re
Piasecki, 745 F.2d 1468, 1471-1472, 223 USPQ 785, 787-788 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the
Examiner and the Appellants concerning the above-noted rejections, we
refer to the Answer and the Brief.
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