Appeal No. 95-1409
Application 07/966,644
Examiner has failed to establish that Trebino teaches the above
limitations.
Upon a careful review of Trebino, we fail to find that
Trebino teaches an induced-grating ultrashort-pulse auto-
correlation technique that uses slowly responding media to
determine instantaneous frequency information. We fail to find
that Trebino teaches combining said gate pulse and said probe
pulse within an instantaneously responding nonlinear medium to
form a signal pulse functionally related to a temporal slice of
said probe pulse corresponding to the time delay between said
probe pulse and said gate pulse, inputting the signal pulse to a
wavelength selective device to output signal pulse field
information comprising signal intensity vs. frequency for a first
value of the time delay and varying the time delay to yield an
intensity plot of signal intensity vs. frequency and delay as set
forth in Appellants’ claims. We do note that in the second to
the last paragraph in column 1 of page 1081, Trebino does suggest
further research using instantaneously responding media, but this
invitation by itself fails to provide a teaching of Appellants’
claimed invention. Therefore, we find that Trebino fails to
teach all of the limitations of claims 1, 3 through 5, 7, 8, 10
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