Appeal No. 96-0871
Serial No. 08/177,858
n.14 (Fed. Cir. 1992), citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900,
902, 221 USPQ 1125, 1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Upon a closer review of Abileah, we agree with the
Examiner that Abileah fails to teach second light source.
Furthermore, we fail to find that Abileah teaches or suggests
the spacing of the first light source members such that the
gap defined between the inner peripheries of two spaced apart
first light source members a distance that is substantially
the same as the inner diameters of the first light source
members. In particular, we find that Abileah is silent to
this spacing in the specification. We further note that
Abileah does show the spacings in Figures 2A and 7 and these
spacings are much greater than Appellant's claimed spacings.
Turning to Farrell, we fail to find that Farrell teaches
or suggests the spacing of the first light source members such
that the gap defined between the inner peripheries of two
spaced apart first light source members a distance that is
substantially the same as the inner diameters of the first
light source members. As with Abileah, Farrell is silent as
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