Appeal No. 2006-1084 Reexamination Control No. 90/006,334 1 The Examiner rejected claims 2, 3 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as 2 being unpatentable over Abraham and Stein. 3 4 B. Issues 5 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 15-18 under 6 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, for indefiniteness? 7 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 1, 4-12, and 8 14-15 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e), as anticipated by Abraham? 9 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 1, 4, 9 and 15 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e), as anticipated by Cirasole? 11 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 1-9 and 11-18 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), as anticipated by Engel? 13 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claim 10 under 14 35 U.S.C. § 103, for obviousness based on Engel and Shwed? 15 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 2, 3, and 13 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, for obviousness based on Abraham and Lodin? 17 Has the Examiner established unpatentability of claims 2, 3 and 13 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, for obviousness based on Abraham and Stein? 19 20 C. Summary of the Decision 21 No. The Examiner has not established the unpatentability of any 22 claims under any ground. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
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