Ex Parte David et al - Page 7

                 Appeal 2007-2814                                                                                      
                 Application 10/215,174                                                                                

                        Claims 8, 14, 16, 17, 22, 29, 30, and 34-40 directly or indirectly                             
                 depend from claim 1.  We have already concluded that the Examiner has not                             
                 set forth a prima facie case that Raymond renders claim 1 obvious.  The                               
                 Examiner relies on Frazier, Benjamin, Cowan, Ito, Fisher, and Stanislowski                            
                 for limitations recited in dependent claims, and has not pointed to any                               
                 disclosure in these references that would make up for the deficiencies in                             
                 Raymond discussed above.  Thus, we conclude that the Examiner has not set                             
                 forth a prima facie case that claims 8, 14, 16, 17, 22, 29, 30, and 34-40                             
                 would have been obvious.  We therefore reverse the obviousness rejections                             
                 of these claims.                                                                                      
                                                    SUMMARY                                                            
                        The Examiner has not shown that the claims would have been obvious                             
                 to a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the applied references.  We                         
                 therefore reverse the rejections of claims 1-17 and 19-59.                                            

                                                    REVERSED                                                           




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