Appeal No. 1997-1188 Page 9
Application No. 08/035,969
obviousness. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to1
reject claims 17 to 38 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
1If the examiner is aware that it was known in the prior
art to combine the seismic signals from the set of seismic
sensors of each seismic receiver to produce a seismic trace,
the examiner should cite a reference in support thereof (see
for example the references referred to in column 3, lines 33-
52, of Miller) and consider whether the pending claims are
patentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over those references when
considered with the prior art applied in the rejection before
us in this appeal.
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