Appeal No. 96-2385
Application 08/110,807
speaking. In Josephson, a ground plane is suggested in
Figures 1 through 3 and generally indicated by the X distance
in Figure 3 as noted at column 3, lines 30 and 31. As to the
Figures 13 through 15 embodiments, these are directed to
aircraft antennas, thus also suggesting that the apparent
ground plane or stated counterpoise in the reference may be or
would likely have been the metal skin of the aircraft. There
are no printed circuit board teachings in Mishima, yet we
recognize that the artisan would have probably perceived that
the construction of the antenna arrangement of Figure 14 of
Josephson of the antenna conductors 2 and 3 being mounted as
metal foils to dielectric plates 5 and 6 would have suggested
a printed circuit board construction approach.
The Figure 5 antenna arrangement in Zakman is analogized
structurally in Figure 7. Between the discussions of Figures
5 and 7 at columns 5 and 6, the antenna structures 503/505 of
Figure 5 have been embodied in the form of a printed
metallized copper foil on printed circuit boards in the
structure of Figure 7 of the slotted printed circuit board 731
therein with the analogous portions of 733 and 735 compared to
structures 503 and 505 in Figure 5. Significant in Figure 7,
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