Appeal No. 2005-2330
Application No. 10/026,123
PRIOR ART
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
support of the Section 103 rejections before us are:
Roessler et al. (Roessler) 5,399,219 Mar. 21, 1995
Schmitz 5,779,831 Jul. 14, 1998
Widlund et al. (Widlund) 6,210,388 B1 Apr. 3, 2001
(Published Oct. 19, 1995)
Fletcher et al. (Fletcher) WO 00/37009 Jun. 29, 2000
(Published International Application)3
Johansson et al. (Johansson) 2 303 045 A Feb. 12, 19974
(Published UK Patent Application)
REJECTIONS
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
1. Claims 1 through 3, 5, 7, 11 through 14 and 20 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined
disclosures of Schmitz and Widlund;
3 In reference to this published foreign document
(Fletcher), we provide its publication number and date, rather
than the unpublished international application number
“PCT/US99/29704" (a designation which is given to a PCT
application prior to its publication date) and incorrect filing
date supplied by the examiner at page 3 of the Answer.
4 In reference to this published foreign document
(Johansson), we provide its publication date since such date (not
the filing date supplied by the examiner) is relevant to its
prior art status. The examiner mentions the filing date of this
published foreign patent application at page 3 of the Answer.
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