Appeal No. 96-3896
Application No. 08/152,315
circulator port (2) to said third circulator port (3) which is
the next port in the circulating direction so that the
demultiplexed output of said desired one of said optical
signals at a desired wavelength (ë ) is coupled from said
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third circulator port (3).
The references relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
DeLange 3,676,684 Jul. 11, 1972
Hepner et al. (Hepner) 4,221,460 Sep. 09, 1980
Glomb et al. (Glomb) 5,077,816 Dec. 31, 1991
The appealed claims stand rejected as under 35
U.S.C.
' 103 as being unpatentable over Hepner or DeLange in view of
Glomb.
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellant with regard to the propriety of these rejections are
set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 14) and the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 22) and the appellant's brief
(Paper No. 21).
Appellant's Invention
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