Appeal No. 1997-1190
Application No. 08/427,972
they were generated down hole. See col. 6, lines 11-23. It
is the examiner's position that:
It would have been obvious to one of the [sic] ordinary
skill in the art at the time the invention was made
having Jeter's teaching available to him to have further
synchronized the signals receiving [sic] from each of the
different sensors of Bseisu et al so that the signals
generated by the sensors can be correlated and evaluated
with the appropriated [sic] time relationship.
(Supplemental answer, page 12).
The examiner cites Chevalier for its teaching of an
electrically conducting ring [8] and contact [9] (supplemental
answer, page 14).
Appellants argue that Jeter merely suggests compensation
for different signal transmission speeds and has nothing to do
with the acquisition in timed sequence of data from first and
second measuring means.
We agree with appellants that neither Jeter nor Chevalier
supplies the "means for processing of said measurement signals
so that acquiring of said measurement signals from said first
and second measuring means is synchronized in time" which we
found lacking in Bseisu in our discussion of the § 102
rejection of claims 1 and 10, supra.
Since all of the limitations of claims 3, 6, 8, 11, 14
and 16 through 29 would not have been suggested by the applied
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