Appeal No. 96-1451
Application No. 07/937,936
(Japanese Kokai patent publication)
IES Lighting Handbook 2-9 (5th ed., Illuminating Engineering
Society 1972) (IES)
Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Yamamoto in view of IES, further in
view of Walter (claims 16 and 17), Schreurs (claim 8), or
Hoffman (claims 4 through 7, 9, and 18).
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 14,
mailed November 1, 1995) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to the appellants' Brief
(Paper No. 13, filed August 7, 1995) for the appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
As a preliminary matter, we note that appellants indicate
on page 3 of the Brief that claims 1 through 18 are to stand
or fall together. Accordingly, we will treat claims 2 through
18 as standing or falling with claim 1, and will consider only
Yamamoto and IES, the references applied against claim 1.
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
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