Appeal No. 1997-2856
Application 08/394,251
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-6 and 8-31.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a U-shaped
fluorescent lamp mounted on a screw base for inserting into a
lamp socket for an ordinary incandescent light bulb.
Claim 5 is reproduced below.
5. An arrangement comprising:
a screwbase operative to be screwed into a lamp
socket of a type functional to receive and hold an
ordinary household incandescent light bulb; the screw-
base being otherwise characterized by including (i) base
terminals, (ii) a threaded portion that is substantially
of cylindrical shape, thereby to define a central
screw-base axis; the lamp socket having a pair of socket
terminals at which is provided an AC power line voltage
such as that present at an ordinary electric utility
power line; this AC power line voltage being applied to
the base terminals whenever the screw-base is indeed
screwed into the lamp socket;
a fluorescent lamp including a pair of
thermionic cathodes and a pair of lamp terminals; the
fluorescent lamp being otherwise characterized by having
a central lamp axis and at least two cylindrical lamp
sections, each having a cylindrical axis disposed
parallel to the central lamp axis; one of the thermionic
cathodes being disposed at one end of each of the
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