Appeal No. 97-2909
Application No. 08/332,317
coating part of the lamp for providing heat stability, and
therefore, to provide heat stability in the lamp of Arlt, one
could provide a partial coating" (id.).
We will not sustain this rejection. In the first place,
as appellants point out in their reply brief, Meulemans does
not disclose a "coating" on the envelope, as the examiner
states, but rather the use of doped UV-absorbing glass for the
"cold" regions of the lamp. Also, we are not convinced that
the coating of Arlt would necessarily be UV-absorbent,
especially since Arlt discloses using doped glass to absorb UV
radiation (col. 3, lines 44 to 47).
In any event, we do not consider that it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill to modify Arlt as proposed by
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