Appeal No. 2006-0859
Application No. 09/778,338
The references cited by this Board are as follows:
Nakamura 4,618,377 Oct. 21, 1986
De Filippis 5,233,250 Aug. 3, 1993
Sakashita 5,677,587 Oct. 14, 1997
Takahashi 5,682,072 Oct. 28, 1997
Acquaviva 6,181,035 Jan. 30, 2001
Rejections At Issue
Claims 7 and 9-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
being indefinite.
Claims 1, 3, 4, and 6, stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious
over the combination of Uchiyama and Neumann.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over the
combination of Uchiyama, Neumann, and Yamamoto.
Claim 5 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over the
combination of Uchiyama, Neumann, Yamamoto, and Nose.
Claims 7 and 9-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over
the combination of Uchiyama, Neumann, and Miyao.
Throughout our opinion, we make references to the Appellants’ briefs, and to the
Examiner’s Answer for the respective details thereof.1
1 Appellants filed a substitute appeal brief (the brief) on September 7, 2004, fully
replacing the original appeal brief filed December 9, 2002. The Examiner mailed an
Examiner’s Answer (the answer) on June 2, 2005, fully replacing the original Examiner’s
Answer mailed March 12, 2003.
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