Appeal No. 97-0514
Application 08/345,114
meaning, and modifiers will not be added to broad terms
standing alone. Johnson Worldwide Assocs., Inc. v. Zebco
Corp., ___ F.3d ____, ____, 50 USPQ2d 1607, 1610 (Fed. Cir.
1999). The examiner here
does not contest the dictionary definition of "radiation"
quoted by appellant, supra, but notes that the definition is
not limited to light, sound, heat or particles emitted by
radioactivity
(answer, page 7). He takes the position that one of ordinary
skill would consider a magnetic field produced by flowing
current to be radiation, quoting a paragraph to that effect
from page 545 of a physics textbook. 3
In addition to this text, we take official notice of
pages 522, 523 and 1311 of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of
3Bueche, Introduction to Physics for Scientists and
Engineers, 2nd Ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1975). In addition to the
paragraph quoted by the examiner, we note that in the last
paragraph on page 546 there is reference to "a magnetic field
radiated from the antenna" (emphasis added).
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