Appeal 2006-3150
Application 09/773,102
We refer to the Examiner's Answer (mailed March 2, 2006) and to
Appellants' Brief (filed December 12, 2005) and Reply Brief (filed May 2,
2006) for the respective arguments.
SUMMARY OF DECISION
As a consequence of our review, we will reverse the obviousness
rejections of claims 1 and 3 through 18.
OPINION
The rejections of all of the claims rely upon Aram as a primary
reference. Aram has a filing date of March 5, 2001. The current application
was filed January 31, 2001, a little over one month prior to the filing date of
Aram. Thus, Aram does not qualify as prior art against the instant claims.
Accordingly, we cannot sustain the obviousness rejection of claims 1, 3, 5
through 9, 11 through 15, 17, and 18 over Aram in view of Goss nor of
claims 4, 10, and 16 over Aram in view of Goss and Peterson.
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