Appeal No. 2006-1819 3
Application No. 10/102,445
Glatz 5,581,967 Dec. 10, 1996
Claims 12 through 20 and 23 through 31 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Glatz.2
Rather than reiterate the examiner's commentary regarding the above-noted
obviousness rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellant regarding the rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer (mailed
November 3, 2003) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to appellant’s brief
(filed August 6, 2003) and reply brief (filed January 7, 2004) for the arguments
thereagainst.
2 Since neither the examiner’s objection to the specification nor the rejection of
claim 25 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, found in the final rejection (pages 2-3), have been repeated in
the answer, we consider them to be withdrawn.
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