Appeal No. 2006-1882
Application No. 10/431,617
Rejections At Issue
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Raffel.
Throughout our opinion, we make references to the Appellants’ briefs, and to the
Examiner’s Answer for the respective details thereof.1
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 affirm the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-20 under
35 U.S.C. § 102.
For purposes of this appeal, Appellants have argued the claims together in three
groupings:
Claims 1-8 as Group I;
Claims 9-15, as Group II; and
Claims 16-20 as Group III.
We will, thereby, consider Appellants’ claims as standing or falling together in the
three groups noted above, and we will treat:
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on September 28, 2005. Appellants filed a reply brief
on February 16, 2006. The Examiner mailed an Examiner’s Answer on December 27,
2005.
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