Appeal No. 1997-2690
Application No. 08/532,040
Sant'Anselmo et al. (Sant'Anselmo) 4,924,078 May
08, 1990
Bloomberg et al. (Bloomberg) 5,091,966 Feb.
25, 1992
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Bloomberg in view of Sant'Anselmo.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 15,
mailed February 7, 1997) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejection, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
No. 14, filed November 26, 1996) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 5.
Appellants' sole argument regarding claim 1 is that
Sant'Anselmo teaches a geometric asymmetry, not an asymmetric
digital code sequence, as required by the claim (Brief, page
5). Therefore, even if Sant'Anselmo were combined with
Bloomberg, appellants contend (Brief, page 5) that the
combination would not meet all of the recited limitations.
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