Appeal No. 1998-2379
Application No. 08/315,942
The Martin reference is directed to “a radar system
in which a solid-state, long radar pulse transmitter is
used with a short coded pulse radar processor and, more
particularly, to a system in which a long pulse
compression filter is provided in the receiver to convert
the long pulse into the short pulse expected by the
signal processor allowing retrofit of existing radar
systems with the more reliable solid-state transmitters
or to the design of a system in which hard limiting
constant false alarm rate processing is desired” (column
1, lines 10 to 19). It is the examiner’s position that
Martin teaches use of a basic radar surveillance system
(answer, page 4). The examiner further states that,
“[t]his basic radar system is generally applicable to the
claims and to any basic radar (or other) surveillance
system, including that of Andrews” (answer, page 4).
Andrews discloses an electronic article surveillance
device (e.g., used by retailers as a security tag to
discourage theft) that may be rendered inoperative via
several techniques (column 1, lines 7 to 17). For
example, the Andrews’ device can be deactivated by a
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