Appeal No. 2003-1278 Page 2
Application No. 09/577,701
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to apparatus for optically coupling pixilated
scintillation arrays with position sensitive photomultipliers (specification, p. 1). A copy of
the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Hilton et al. (Hilton) 3,225,193 Dec. 21, 1965
Spelha et al. (Spelha) 3,723,735 Mar. 27, 1973
Muehllehner 3,937,964 Feb. 10, 1976
Persyk 5,059,798 Oct. 22, 1991
Yamakawa et al. (Yamakawa) 5,442,181 Aug. 15, 1995
Claims 1, 4 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Muehllehner in view of Hilton.
Claims 2 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Muehllehner in view of Hilton and Spelha.
Claims 3 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Muehllehner in view of Hilton and Persyk.
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