Appeal No. 2000-0953 Page 8
Application No. 08/288,418
superconducting when said host platform is substantially
nonmetallic" (emphasis ours) is not met by Koepf.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 19 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
is reversed.
The obviousness rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 1 to 18 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
The appellants argue (brief, pp. 8-11) that the applied
prior art does not suggest the claimed subject matter. We
agree.
Claims 1 to 18 under appeal require an antenna assembly
having a substantially continuous bandwidth from the microwave
region of the electromagnetic spectrum to the VHF region of
the spectrum. However, this limitation is not suggested by
the applied prior art. In that regard, the antenna assembly
of Koepf does not disclose a substantially continuous
bandwidth from the microwave region of the electromagnetic
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