Appeal No. 96-0423
Application 08/126,439
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 3, 10, 11 and 15 through 18, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
The sole independent claim 3 is reproduced below:
3. An apparatus for tracking satellite motion at an
antenna, said antenna having a pointing axis with associated
hour angle and declination, said apparatus comprising:
oscillation means for automatically imparting a periodic
oscillation to the hour angle and the declination of said
antenna.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Longhurst et al. (Longhurst) 4,126,865 Nov.
21, 1978
Crean 4,628,323 Dec. 9,
1986
Rothbarth et al. (Rothbarth) 4,692,771 Sep.
8, 1987
Gorton et al. (Gorton) 5,077,561 Dec. 31,
1991
(filed May 8,
1990)
Claims 3, 10, 11, and 15 through 17 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Longhurst. These
same claims also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
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