Appeal No. 2006-1946
Application No. 10/437,580
THE REFERENCES
Douglas 5,330,184 Jul. 19, 1994
Grupp et al. (Grupp) 5,484,205 Jan. 16, 1996
Small et al. (Small) 6,139,779 Oct. 31, 2000
Chinn et al. (Chinn) 6,146,293 Nov. 14, 2000
Kennedy, III 2003/0109329 A1 Jun. 12, 2003
(filed Dec. 6, 2001)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-3, 5, 10, 17-19, 21, 24-29 and 31-34 over Kennedy in
view of Douglas; claims 4, 8, 20 and 22 over Kennedy in view of
Douglas and Small; claims 12 and 13 over Kennedy in view of
Douglas and Chinn; and claims 14-16 over Kennedy in view of
Douglas and Grupp.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
The appellant states that the claims stand or fall in five
groups: 1) claims 1, 3-5, 8, 12, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24-29, 31
and 32;1 2) claims 2 and 18; 3) claims 10, 33 and 34;
4) claims 14-16; and 5) claim 20 (brief, pages 4-5). We
therefore limit our discussion to claim 20 and one claim in each
of the other groups, i.e., claims 1, 2, 10 and 14. The other
1 The appellant omits claim 13 from the grouping of claims. We consider that claim to stand or fall with
claim 1 from which it depends. Also, we note that although an additional reference (Chinn) is applied to
claims 12 and 13, the appellant does not separately argue those claims.
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
Last modified: September 9, 2013