Appeal No. 97-0398
Application 08/281,732
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the
examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, 10
and 18.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A multistage fiber amplifier comprising
an input stage having a given passive loss and a
flattened gain spectrum, and
an output stage coupled to said input stage, said output
stage having a passive loss that is lower than said given
passive loss and gain spectrum that is less flat than [said]
input stage.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
DiGiovanni et al. (DiGiovanni) 5,050,949 Sept. 24,
1991
Claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, 10 and 18 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner
relies upon DiGiovanni alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the brief and the answer
for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
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