Appeal No. 95-0125
Application 07/818,162
Therefore, the rejection of claim 1 is reversed, and the
rejection of claims 2 through 10 and 23 through 28, which
stand or fall therewith, is likewise reversed.
NEW GROUND OF REJECTION
Under the authority of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), this panel
of the board introduces the following new ground of rejection.
Claims 1 through 10 and 23 through 28 are rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the IBM
Bulletin in view of the Airpot document and Auth.
The IBM Bulletin discloses a typical Michelson
interferometer including, inter alia, a movable mirror
assembly comprising a piston-like slide 1 (Figures 1 and 2)
and a cylinder of glass (Figure 1), with the slide including
mercury bearings to effect virtually frictionless movement
(page 245) of the slide
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