Appeal No. 2005-2522 Page 4
Application No. 09/841,453
reversible error on the part of the examiner. Accordingly, we
will affirm the examiner’s rejections of the appealed claims.
Our reasoning follows.
Appellants have furnished fifteen groupings of claims
(brief, pages 4-6). The examiner’s Section 103(a) rejection of
claims 2-16, 18-21 and 31-34 over Jin in view of Grainger and
Kotelnikov includees claims within twelve of appellants’ fifteen
claim groupings. Not withstanding the separate claim groupings
involved, appellants do not furnish separate arguments for any of
the claims subject to this ground of rejection. Accordingly, we
select claim 20 as the representative claim on which we shall
decide this appeal as to the examiner’s Section 103(a) rejection
of claims 2-16, 18-21 and 31-34 over Jin in view of Grainger and
Kotelnikov. See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), as in effect at the time
of the filing of appellants’ brief, and In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d
1379, 1383, 63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002) (“[i]f the
brief fails to meet either requirement, the Board is free to
select a single claim from each group of claims subject to a
common ground of rejection as representative of all claims in
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