Appeal 2007-0616 Application 10/733,689 VII. CONCLUSION In summary: 1) The § 102 rejection of claims 13 through 15, 17, and 18 as anticipated by Ruegg is affirmed; 2) The § 102 rejection of claim 16 as anticipated by Ruegg is reversed; 3) The § 103 rejection of claim 19 as unpatentable over Ruegg is reversed; 4) The § 103 rejection of claims 20 through 23 as unpatentable over Ruegg is affirmed; 5) The § 103 rejection of claims 13 through 15, 17, 18, and 20 through 23 as unpatentable over Pravnik and Ruegg is affirmed; 6) The § 103 rejection of claims 16 and 19 as unpatentable over Pravnik and Ruegg is reversed; and 7) The provisional obviousness-type double patenting rejection of claims 13 through 16 based on claims 5 through 9 of Application 10/718,855 is affirmed. Accordingly, the decision of the Examiner is affirmed-in-part. VIII. TIME PERIOD No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 C.F.R. §1.136(a). AFFIRMED-IN-PART 10Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
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