Appeal No. 97-3467
Application 08/279,748
referenced in the appellant’s brief is used not to describe the
single point at the corner where the angle " is zero degrees and
the angle T is also zero degrees, but the relatively distortion
free "region" at the upper left corner of the graph, where the
angle " is less than 15 degrees and the angle o is less than 7.5
degrees. See Figure 26.
The examiner has, erroneously, tried (answer at 3) to find
in Morimoto an instance where the angle " is zero degrees and
the
angle o is also zero degrees. Even assuming that the examiner
finds an instance in Morimoto where the angle " is zero degrees
and the angle o is also zero degrees, that would not have
reasonably suggested the upper left "region" in Figure 26 where
" is a range between zero and 15 degrees and o is a range
between zero and 7.5 degrees, as identified by the appellant in
connection with the various relationships required by claim 1.
The examiner’s rejection fails on this ground alone.
In addition to erroneously construing the identified "region"
as a single point, the examiner has failed to explain how he
determined that in Morimoto the angle " is zero and the angle o
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