Appeal 2006-2557
Application 10/004,978
The Examiner relies upon the following references as evidence of
obviousness:
Narushima US 3,948,836 Apr. 6, 1976
Hayashi JP 58,076,447 May 9, 19831
Wittmann US 5,030,675 Jul. 9, 1991
Choi US 5,087,521 A Feb. 11, 1992
Umeda US 5,449,710 A Sep. 12, 1995
Fuhr US 5,658,974 A Aug. 19, 1997
Yamamoto US 6,184,312 B1 Feb. 6, 2001
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
follows:
(a) claims 1, 2, 4-11, 16-19, and 21 over Yamamoto in view of Fuhr,
(b) claims 3 and 20 over the stated combination of references further
in view of JP ’447,
(c) claim 12 over the stated combination of references further in view
of Wittmann,
(d) claim 13 over the stated combination of references further in view
of Umeda, and
(e) claims 14 and 15 over the stated combination of references further
in view of Choi or Narushima.
Appellant submits that “only the one ground of rejection is argued in
this Appeal” (Br. 3, ¶ 2), namely, the Section 103 rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-
11, 16-19 and 21 over Yamamoto in view of Fuhr. Since Appellant has not
advanced an argument that is reasonably specific to any particular claim on
appeal, all the appealed claims stand or fall together with claim 1, and we
will limit our consideration to the Examiner’s rejection of claim 1 under 35
U.S.C. § 103.
1 Hereinafter referred to as “JP ‘447.”
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