Appeal No. 1998-1919 Page 6
Application No. 08/620,993
(Ursrey's diode within one of the LED light sources D ) in a
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second container (the outer housing of Ursrey's LED light
source D ), at least one of said first and second containers
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comprising a fish attracting device (Ursrey's body 12 is a
fish attracting device).
The appellant argues (brief, pp. 3-4) that it is
inappropriate to consider the LED light source D to be
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mounted within its own container. Specifically, the appellant
contends that the LED requires its glass or plastic enclosure
to function, and cannot be regarded as existing independent
from an enclosure. We find this argument to be unpersuasive
for the following reason. Ursrey discloses a LED light source
D . One of ordinary skill in the art would know that a LED
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light source consists of a "transducer" (i.e., the2
semiconductor PN junction diode which has an anode lead and a
cathode lead) and a "housing" (i.e., the molded plastic lens
which encloses the semiconductor PN junction diode). Thus, it
2See page 302 of the McGraw-Hill Electronics Dictionary
(1994) which defines the term "light-emitting diode."
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