Appeal No. 1998-0160
Application No. 08/529,330
Schmidt et al. (Schmidt ‘757) 3,464,757 Sep. 2, 1969
Traeger et al. (Traeger) 4,260,217 Apr. 7, 1981
Godfrey et al. (Godfrey) 4,422,758 Dec. 27, 1983
Schmidt (Schmidt ‘905) 4,626,905 Dec. 2, 1986
Hatfield, Jr. (Hatfield) 5,025,149 Jun. 18, 1991
Owen 5,497,266 Mar. 5, 1996
Japanese Kokai Patent Application 61-132901, Jun. 20, 1986 (Iizuka)1
R. A. Buchroeder, Tilted-Component Telescopes. Part I: Theory, Applied Optics, Vol. 9,
No. 9, pp. 2169-71, Sep. 1970 (Buchroeder)
Claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9, 14, and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Schmidt ‘757, Godfrey, Traeger, and Buchroeder.
Claims 5-7 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Schmidt ‘757, Godfrey, Traeger, Buchroeder, and Owen.
Claims 10-12 and 16-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Schmidt ‘757, Godfrey, Traeger, Buchroeder, Schmidt ‘905, Iizuka, and
Hatfield.2
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 4) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 9) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 8) for
appellants’ position.
The USPTO translation branch has provided an English translation of the Japanese1
application, dated December 1997. A copy of the translation is attached to this decision.
2A previous rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112 has been withdrawn, subsequent to entry of
an amendment after the Final Rejection. (See Answer, page 2.)
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