Appeal No. 96-3201
Application 08/177,399
system so that said fixture heads are mounted at substantially
the same predetermined mounting height, said predetermined
mounting height defining an ambient lighting mounting plane,
said fixture heads being detachably mountable to and
interchangeable with said mounting structures such that said
fixture heads can interchangeably be positioned and
repositioned within said ambient lighting mount plane.2
The references of record relied upon as evidence of
obviousness are:
Crider 2,732,487 Jan. 24,
1956
Martin 4,228,489 Oct. 14,
1980
Kao et al. (Kao) 5,091,834 Feb. 25,
1992
Sill Catalog, “Indirektstrahler”, April/May 1990 (Translation
attached for pages 12-14).3
For purposes of this appeal, appellants have divided the
claims into three groups; claims 1-13 will stand or fall with
representative claim 1; claims 18, 20 and 22 will stand or
2With respect to line 8 of claim 1, we note that this line requires the
fixture heads to be detachably mountable and interchangeable with said
mounting structures. In fact, the fixture heads are not interchangeable with
the mounting structures, but are interchangeable on said mounting structures.
This claim language should be corrected in any further prosecution before the
examiner.
3Our understanding of the Sill Catalog reference is by way of an
English language translation, a copy of which is attached to our decision.
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