Appeal No. 2005-2489
Application No. 09/949,736
Karlson 4,052,603 Oct. 4, 1977
Gartner et al. (Gartner) 5,254,832 Oct. 19, 1993
Somers et al. (Somers) 6,140,604 Oct. 31, 2000
THE REJECTIONS
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
(1) Claims 19 through 33, 37, 40 and 42 through 44 under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by the disclosure of Gartner;
(2) Claim 38 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
disclosure of Gartner;
(3) Claims 34 through 36 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over the combined disclosures of Gartner and Somers; and
(4) Claim 41 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
combined disclosures of Gartner and Karlson.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
applied prior art, including all of the arguments and evidence
advanced by the examiner and the appellant in support of their
respective positions. As a result of this review, we made the
determinations which follow.2
For purposes of this appeal, we limit our discussion to2
the claim specifically argued by the appellant in accordance with
37 CFR § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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