Appeal No. 96-0319 Page 4
Application No. 08/155,519
of MPEP 1208. That section of the MPEP permits an examiner to
refer back to the final rejection or a single other action in
order to incorporate in the answer the statement of the grounds
of rejection. The examiner in the instant case refers back to
the final rejection, Paper No. 4, which, in turn, refers back
to another office action, Paper No. 2. The examiner is hereby
notified not to continue this practice in the future.
Turning to the rejection of claims 1 through 26 under 35
U.S.C. 103, independent claims 1, 15, 21, 24 and 25 each
requires a “power conditioner” which transforms an AC input
line voltage into a DC voltage. Waller, the primary reference,
discloses no such use of a DC voltage, disclosing, instead, a
conventional lighting grid wherein the lights are connected to
a receptacle for receiving AC line voltage. Roberts, relied on
by the examiner for the teaching of a power conditioner, as
claimed, discloses no such conversion, as inherently claimed.
Roberts starts with a DC supply voltage for use in hazardous
situations, as in mines, and provides no teaching or suggestion
of converting an AC power line voltage to a DC voltage to be
used in grid lighting in order to prevent a fire hazard. We
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