Appeal No. 95-1186
Application No. 08/051,797
of Wood et al as taught by Coe et al (Fig. 8) for the purpose
of forming a phased array, and to space the inter-group arrays
by a distance more than the inter-element spacing within each
group to prevent destructive coupling and interferenece [sic]
therebetween.” The examiner also contends that the specific
dimensions and values would have been “well known design
expedients...”
It is doubtful that any skilled artisan would have sought
to combine the microstrip antenna system of Wood with elements
of a dipole antenna system as taught by Coe as the systems are
quite different (this is apparently recognized by Coe at
column 1, lines 18-31). But, in any event, Coe adds nothing
to the deficiency of Wood regarding the relationship between
the spacing between adjacent groups and the spacing between
patches within a group. The only array Coe discloses is shown
in Figure 8 thereof and that array is a generalization
disclosing nothing about the spacing between any individual
patches within the blank boxes of Coe’s Figure 8.
Since neither reference discloses or suggests the claimed
relationship between the spacing between adjacent groups and
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