Appeal No. 96-1625
Application No. 08/096,106
Claims 9 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Lequime in view of Landa, Birang,
Smith, Ando, Imahashi, Lee and Silvergate.
Claims 12 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Lequime in view of Landa, Birang,
Smith, Ando, Imahashi, Lee, Silvergate and Mächler.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 14 is
reversed.
Lequime discloses a spectrometer (Figure 1) in which
light from a light source 36 travels via an optical fiber 38
and Y-coupler 40 to two different light paths. One of
the paths is a reference light path 32, and the other path
serves as a light to illuminate object 44. The light
reflected from object 44, and the reference light in path 32
input the spectrometer 14 via connectors 30, shutters 34,
optical fibers 28 and inlet slot 16.
Landa teaches that in a spectrographic analyzer “[t]he
light transmitted through the sample, reflected from the
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