Appeal No. 96-1472
Application No. 08/287,070
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 10, 12, 13 and 15 through 27. In an Amendment After
Final (paper number 23), claim 18 was amended. According to 2
the examiner (Answer, page 1), claim 13 as well as claims 11
and 14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base
claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claim. Thus, claims 1 through 10, 12 and 15
through 27 remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a scanner for
angularly scanning a light beam. The scanner uses a shutter
with an array of individually addressable shutter elements to
convert a source of diverging light into the scanning light
beam.
Claim 19 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
19. A scanner for angularly scanning a light beam, said
scanner comprising:
a source of diverging light
2The amendment to claim 18 had the effect of overcoming
the indefiniteness rejection of claim 18 (paper number 12).
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