Appeal No. 96-3023
Application No. 08/439,284
stored RF signals as a reference for comparison with reflected
RF signals.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A radar system comprises:
a transmitter;
an antenna subsystem;
an optical fiber RF storage subsystem;
a coherent RF receiver;
wherein the transmitter comprises means for generating RF
signals; wherein the antenna subsystem comprises means for
transmission of generated RF signals and for receiving
reflection of RF signals; wherein the optical fiber RF storage
subsystem comprises means for storing a portion of generated
RF signals from the transmitter; wherein the coherent RF
receiver comprises means for processing the reflected RF
signals from the antenna subsystem by using the stored RF
signals from the optical fiber RF storage subsystem as a
reference.
All of the claims on appeal stand rejected under the
judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double
patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 through 20 of
appellant’s U.S. Patent No. 5,294,930.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 11, 13 and
19 ), the final rejection, and the answers for the respective2
positions of the appellant and the examiner.
2All of the other Supplemental Briefs were not entered by
the examiner.
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