Application No.10/460,812
introduced three (3) new grounds of rejection, which included:
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2) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. § 112 1 paragraph;
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3) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. § 112 2 paragraph; and
4) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) in view of
the admitted prior art further in view of JP63-223590 and either
Sankovich (3,235,463) or
Straub (5,008,068).
Any new ground of rejection made by an examiner in an Examiner’s Answer must be
approved by a Technology Center (TC) Director or designee (see MPEP 1207.05). The new
grounds of rejection introduced in the above-identified Examiner’s Answer, was not authorized
by the Technology Center (TC) Director or his designee.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXAMINER’S ANSWER
In response to the Reply Brief dated August 30, 2005, the Examiner mailed a
Supplemental Examiner’s Answer on October 26, 2005. The Supplemental Examiner’s Answer
included the following rejections:
1) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) over the admitted prior art,
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2) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. §112 1 paragraph,
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3) claims 1-2 under 35 U.S.C. §112 2 paragraph, and
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