Appeal No. 2006-0859
Application No. 09/778,338
occupied by the magnet and a maximum 7/9 of the X mechanical degrees. The
remainder of the X mechanical degrees is unmagnatized.
OPINION
With full consideration being given to the subject matter on appeal, the
Examiner’s rejections and the arguments of the Appellants and the Examiner, for the
reasons stated infra, we reverse the Examiner’s rejection of claims 7 and 9-11 under
35 U.S.C. § 112; and we affirm the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-7 and 9-11 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
Appellants have indicated that for purposes of this appeal the claims stand or fall
together in eight groupings:
Claim 1 as Group I;
Claim 2 as Group II;
Claims 3 and 4 as Group III;
Claim 5 as Group IV;
Claim 6 as Group V;
Claim 7 as Group VI;
Claims 9 and 10 as Group VII; and
Claim 11 as Group VIII.
See page 4 of the brief. We will, thereby, consider Appellants’ claims as standing or
falling together in the eight groups noted above, and we will treat:
Claim 3 as a representative claim of Group III; and
Claim 9 as a representative claim of Group VII.
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