Appeal No. 1996-2986
Application 08/348,625
Claims 1, 2, 5, 25, 26, and 29 stand finally rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to non-statutory
subject matter. Claims 1-11 and 21-29 stand finally rejected
under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over either one of Rietsch
or Potter in view of “well known practices in the art.”2
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Brief and Answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the Examiner and the
reasons relied upon by the Examiner as support for the
rejections. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
2 The Examiner’s statement of the grounds of rejection
refers to the application of the teachings of Rietsch and
Potter to measurements of transfer functions in accordance
with “well-known practices.” Particular mention is made to a
previously known interpolation technique known as “the splines
interpolation.”
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