Appeal No. 1998-1927
Application No. 08/703,276
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an acoustic sensor for monitoring a point in space
remote from the sensor (specification, page 1). An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 21, which appear in the appendix to the
appellants' brief.1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
McCarty 5,107,709 Apr. 28, 1992
Fisher 5,155,707 Oct. 13, 1992
Slayton et al. (Slayton) 5,175,709 Dec. 29, 1992
Aida et al. (Aida) 5,590,653 Jan. 7, 1997
(filed Mar. 9, 1994)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Fisher.
Claim 7 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Fisher in
view of Slayton.
Claims 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Fisher
in view of Slayton, as applied to claim 7 above, and further in view of Aida.
1The examiner (answer, page 3) points out a minor error in the copy of claim 1 in the appellants' appendix.
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