is this an identical patent?

[abahattab]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

I have a patent pending since 2006 and the examiner has rejected my patent because that he said that there is another patent is already registered. when I reviewed the patent I found that the methodology is totally different although we have the same output. can I say that they are different?
please advise.
many thanks

abdo

[divgradcurl]

Originally Posted by abahattab

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

I have a patent pending since 2006 and the examiner has rejected my patent because that he said that there is another patent is already registered. when I reviewed the patent I found that the methodology is totally different although we have the same output. can I say that they are different?
please advise.
many thanks

abdo

Is this a U.S. patent application?