Appeal No. 2006-1281 Page 3
Application No. 09/926,029
Applied Prior Art
Watanabe 4,684,272 Aug. 4, 1987
Haraguchi et al. (Haraguchi) 5,819,500 Oct. 13, 1998
Kanai 5,931,588 Aug. 3, 1999
The Rejections
Claims 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as
containing subject matter which was not described in the appellant’s specification so as
to convey to one of ordinary skill in the art that the appellant, at the time the application
was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 8 and 9 also stand rejected as being unpatentable over Watanabe or
Kanai in view of Haraguchi or, in the alternative, as being unpatentable over Haraguchi
in view of Watanabe or Kanai.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding this appeal, we make reference to the examiner's answer
(mailed November 1, 2005) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejections and to the appellant's brief (filed August 26, 2005) for the appellant's
arguments thereagainst.
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