Appeal No. 96-2138
Application 07/967,607
Claims 1-9 and 12-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over McSweeney, Northrop, and Konings. The
examiner finds that "McSweeney discloses a fluorescent lamp
comprising: a blend of an alkaline earth halophosphate with a
mixture of phosphor (col. 1, lines 61-col. 2, lines 9, see also
abstract)" (Final Rejection, page 2). The examiner finds that
Northrop discloses a quad-phosphor blend having red, green, and
blue emission spectrums within the recited ranges and an europium
activated blue/green emitting phosphor (Final Rejection,
pages 2-3). The examiner concludes (Final Rejection, page 3):
Therefor, it would have been obvious to combine the
teachings of coating the interior surface of fluorescent
lamp with a blend of alkaline earth metal halophosphate
phosphors as taught by McSweeney with the teachings of the
use of a blend of quad-phosphor for fluorescent lamp as
taught by Northrop, since the blending of these two
phosphors will provide McSweeney's fluorescent lamp to
obtain an ultraviolet energy of wide spectrum of radiated
energy.
The examiner finds that Konings teaches locating the color point
of the emitted radiation near the Planckian locus (Final
Rejection, page 3).
Claims 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over McSweeney, Northrop, Konings, and
Taubner. The examiner applies Taubner as teaching that a green
phosphor can be a zinc orthosilicate phosphor (Final Rejection,
pages 4-5).
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