Appeal No. 1996-0841
Application No. 07/928,443
through 24 and 30 above, and further in view of Smith and
Matsuura; and
(6) Claim 33 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over
Clifford and Firth as applied to claims 1 through 3, 5 through
24 and 30 above, and further in view of Micheli and Forster.
Having carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
applied prior art, including all of the arguments advanced by
both the examiner and appellants, we agree with appellants
that the examiner has not established a prima facie case of
obviousness regarding the claimed subject matter. Therefore,
we reverse each of the foregoing § 103 rejections for
essentially those reasons set forth by appellants in their
Brief and Reply Briefs. We add the following primarily for
emphasis.
The appealed subject matter as represented by the
broadest claim on appeal, claim 1, is directed to an improved
gas sensor array composed of a plurality of individual sensor
elements for detecting individual gas constituents in a gas
mixture. The improvement lies in using
at least one of the individual sensor elements
comprising a catalytically inactive $-Ga O thin film
2 3
being provided with a catalytically active material,
and with all the individual sensor elements being
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