Appeal No. 98-0174
Application 08/545,162
We reach an opposite result, however, with regard to claims
8 through 16. We will not sustain the rejection of these claims
under 35 U.S.C. 103 because we do not find in the applied
references any teaching or suggestion of employing two
frequencies in a crystal microbalance in order to calculate a
mass applied to the crystal wherein a first frequency is
temperature sensitive and a second frequency is mass sensitive,
as required by instant claim 8. Note that unlike independent
claim 8, independent claim 1 does not specify that each frequency
is particularly parameter sensitive..
The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1 through 16 under
35 U.S.C. 103 is affirmed-in-part.
No time period for taking any subsequent action in
connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 CFR
1.136(a).
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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