Appeal No. 2005-0562
Application 09/824,276
Jones 4,633,725 Jan. 6, 1987
Reynolds et al. (Reynolds) 4,974,468 Dec. 4, 1990
Claims 11, 13 through 16 and 19 through 27 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Reynolds in
view of Jones.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of the
above-noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the rejection, we make
reference to the final rejection (mailed May 21, 2003) and
examiner's answer (mailed January 13, 2004) for the reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants’ brief (filed October
24, 2003) and reply brief (filed March 15, 2004) for the
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to appellants’ specification and claims2,
2 Notwithstanding the examiner’s indication in the answer
(page 2) that the copy of the appealed claims contained in the
Appendix to the brief is correct, we note that a copy of claim 14
3
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