Appeal No. 2005-0510
Application No. 09/883,435
separate gas chamber, with each reaction chamber having inside
thereof a reservoir and several reaction areas (Brief, page 2).
The reaction areas are connected to one another and to the
reservoir in order to exchange gas, with the walled reaction
chambers disposed immediately adjacent each other in straight rows,
and the straight rows are disposed immediately adjacent to one
another in immediately adjacent, parallel rows, where each row is
demarcated from one another by common walls (id.).
Appellants state that claims 1, 7, 27, 35, 36 and 53 “each are
patentable on their own merits,” with all other claims standing or
falling with the claim they depend upon (Brief, page 8). To the
extent appellants present reasonably specific, substantive
arguments for the patentability of an individual claim (e.g.,
Brief, page 13), we consider these claims separately. See 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(2003); In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379, 1383, 63 USPQ2d
1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002). A copy of representative independent
claim 1 is attached as an Appendix to this decision.
The examiner relies on Kim et al. (Kim), U.S. Patent No.
6,039,804, issued Mar. 21, 2000, as the sole evidence of
obviousness. Accordingly, the claims on appeal stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Kim (Answer, page 3).
We affirm the rejection of claims 1-3, 6-10, 12-24, 30-35, 53 and
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