Appeal No. 1999-1894
Application 08/847,804
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Fenwick 4,145,693 March 20, 1979
Dell-Imagine et al. (Dell-Imagine) 4,962,488 October 9,
1990
Dörrie et al. (Dörrie) 5,258,765 November 2, 1993
Claims 9, 11-20, and 25-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Fenwick and Dörrie.
Claim 23 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Fenwick and Dörrie, as applied to the
rejection of claim 9, further in view of Dell-Imagine.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 26) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 32) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 30)
(pages referred to as "Br__") and the reply brief (Paper
No. 33) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for Appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Fenwick discloses a prior art three-frequency trap
monopole antenna 22 in Fig. 2, which is described at column 2,
lines 31-48. The parallel inductor coil 24 and capacitor 25
make up a subcircuit which is resonant at 2f , along with an
L
inductor coil 27 and capacitor 28 making up subcircuit 29
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