Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
7. The Examiner rejected reissue claims 5-11, 14-15, 17-18,
21-33, 36-37, 39-40, and 43-48 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Dickinson and More (Answer 7-9).
8. The Examiner rejected reissue claims 12-13, 19-20, 34-35, and
41-42 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Dickinson,
More, and Ballard (Answer 9).
9. The Examiner rejected reissue claims 49-55, 58-59, 61-62,
65-82, 85, 87, and 90-101 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Dickinson, More, and Vertelney (Answer 9-10).
10. The Examiner rejected reissue claims 56-57, 63-64, 83-84, and
88-89 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Dickinson,
More, Vertelney, and Ballard (Answer 10-11).
11. With respect to the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 251 of claims
5-15, 17-37, 39-59, 61-85, and 87-101, the panel affirms the decision of the
Examiner.
12. With respect to the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) of
claims 5-15, 17-37, 39-59, 61-85, and 87-101, the panel affirms the decision
of the Examiner.
13. With respect to the rejection of claims 1-4, the panel reverses
the decision of the Examiner.
AFFIRMED-IN-PART2
2 Also, two new grounds of rejection have been added in Section VI of this
decision.
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