Appeal No. 96-0423
Application 08/126,439
to suggest an East-West changeability of the antenna, thus
suggesting an ability to perhaps move the antenna with respect
to hour angle changes. This teaching and showing have not
been relied upon by the examiner and there is no clear
teaching anyway in this portion of Gorton that any East-West
movement of the antenna would be on a periodic, oscillatory
basis as required by claim 3 on appeal for the hour angle
feature recited.
Therefore, the rejection of claims 3, 10, 11 and 15
through 17 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by
Gorton is also reversed.
Finally, we turn to the rejection of claims 3, 10, 11,
and 15 through 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As noted earlier,
Longhurst specifically and explicitly indicates that there is
a periodic declination oscillatory action of the antenna while
it generally remains fixed with a constant hour angle. The
discussion at columns 1 and 2 of Longhurst suggests that this
action is tolerable for an antenna arrangement of small size
to adequately sense signals from geostationary satellites.
However, the teaching at column 2, beginning at line 10 by
inference would have indicated to the artisan that an entirely
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