Appeal No. 2005-0844 2
Application No. 10/397,807
of independent claims 1, 8, 15 and 19 can be found in the Appendix attached to
appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
claims on appeal are:
McCarthy 5,964,618 Oct. 12, 1999
Farrant 6,211,581 Apr. 3, 2001
Claims 1 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over McCarthy in view of Farrant.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's specific comments regarding the above-
noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellants
regarding the rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (mailed November
12, 2004) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to appellants’ brief (filed
August 27, 2004) and reply brief (filed January 14, 2005) for the arguments
thereagainst.
As a preliminary matter, we note appellants’ indication on page 5 of their brief
that “Claims 1-19 stand or fall together.” Thus, in the following discussion only
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