Appeal No. 96-1999
Application 08/216,382
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 8 and from the refusal of the examiner to allow
claim 9,
as amended subsequent to the final rejection. These claims
constitute all of the claims in the application.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a spacecraft and
to a method of imparting a velocity to a spacecraft. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claims 1 and 8, copies of which appear in the
APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 10).
As evidence of anticipation, the examiner has ap-
plied the document specified below:
Hubert 5,058,834 Oct. 22, 1991
The following rejection is before us for review.2
2A final rejection of claims 2 through 7 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 was withdrawn by the examiner, as noted on page 1 of the
answer (Paper No. 12).
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