Appeal No. 2006-2268
Application No. 10/468,448
CITATION OF REFERENCES
The Examiner cites the following references in rejecting
the claims on appeal:
Bremser (Bremser ‘502) WO 01/02502 A1 Jan. 11, 2001
(published World. Intell. Prop. Org. Patent Application)
Bremser (Bremser ‘448) CA 2377759 Dec. 28, 2001
(published Canadian Intell. Prop. Off. Patent Application)2
GROUNDS OF REJECTION
The Examiner entered the following rejections (Answer, pp.
3 to 6);
(I) Claims 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
Appellants regards as this invention.
(II) Claims 1 to 14, 16 to 21 and 23-27 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Bremser ‘502.
(III) Claims 1 to 14, 16 to 21 and 23-27 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Bremser ‘502.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the Examiner and the Appellants regarding the above noted
The Examiner relies on CA 2377759 as an English language2
translation of the German WO 01/02502 A1 document.
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