Appeal No. 1998-0038
Application No. 08/236,780
George, Patricia M., "Your Mirrors Are in Space and You Have
to Clean Them," Research & Development, 30(10), pp. 109-114
(Oct. 1988).
Claims 1-4, 5-8, 14, 15 and 18 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Champetier.
Claims 5, 9, 10, 15 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Barrington in view of
Champetier, and dependent claims 11-13 and 17 stand
correspondingly rejected over these references and further in
view of Benzing, Cuomo and Akishin.
Finally, claims 1-4, 15 and 18 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over George.
We refer to the several briefs and answers for a complete
discussion of the differing viewpoints expressed by the
appellants and by the examiner concerning the above-noted
rejections.
OPINION
For the reasons set forth below, we will sustain only the
Section 103 rejection based upon Champetier alone.
As correctly pointed out by the examiner in the answer,
Champetier discloses a method of removing contaminants from
substrates on spacecraft such as cryogenic cooling systems
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