Appeal No. 1998-0628
Application 08/197,100
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 25-37 and 39-44. Claim 38 is
indicated to be allowable if rewritten to overcome the
35 U.S.C. § 112 rejection and to include all of the
limitations of the base and intervening claims.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to an apparatus and
method for examining transparent optical components, such as
contact lenses.
Claim 30 is reproduced below.
30. An apparatus for examining a transparent optical
component, comprising:
an optical image-producing device being provided
with a dark-field illumination means, the dark-field
illumination means illuminating the component and
the optical image-producing device receiving the
light transmitted through the component the
image-producing device recording a two-dimensional
high-contrast image of the whole component to be
examined at one single time and then displaying said
image; and
an image-processing device having an
image-recording means with an image-sensor for area
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