Appeal Number: 2006-3291
Application Number: 10/178,845
This appeal arises from the examiner’s final rejection, mailed July 21, 2005.
The appellant filed a brief in support of the appeal on October 24, 2005, and the
examiner mailed an answer to the appeal brief on January 6, 2006. The appellant
requested an oral hearing, and the case was heard on February 13, 2007.
PRIOR ART4
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Izumida US 4,883,320 Nov. 28, 1989
Vento US 5,441,331 Aug. 15, 1995
Davis US 5,456,519 Oct. 10, 1995
MacKenzie US 5,868,463 Feb. 09, 1999
Riach, Jr. US 2002/0068847 Jun. 6, 2002
(Dec. 5, 2000)
REJECTIONS5
Claims 1, 4 and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by
Davis.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Davis and
MacKenzie6.
4 The examiner failed to list these references as required (MPEP § 1207.02(A)(8))
in the Evidence Relied Upon section (Answer 3), but did refer to Davis in the
Grounds of Rejection (Answer 4-5). The examiner referred to all of these
references in the Final Rejection pp. 3-8.
5 The examiner withdrew a rejection against claims 1, 2 and 4-13 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph (Answer 2).
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