Appeal No. 2001-0250 Page 24
Application No. 08/283,074
appellants argue, "such claims point out that the launching
transducer is coupled to the sidewall ...." (Reply Br. at 2.)
Claim 23 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a launching transducer coupled to the sidewall
to launch acoustical energy through the sidewall of said
conduit ...." Similarly, claim 39 specifies in pertinent part
the following limitations: "a launching transducer coupled to
said conduit for launching acoustical energy through the
sidewall of said conduit ...." Also similarly, claim 67
specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "a
launching transducer coupled to launch acoustical energy
through the sidewall ...." Giving claims 23, 39, and 67 their
broadest reasonable interpretation, the limitations recite a
transducer for launch acoustical energy through a sidewall of
a conduit.
The examiner fails to show a teaching of the limitations
in Seybert. Although the reference discloses microphones
coupled to the sidewall of a steel tube, the microphones do
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