Appeal No. 1999-0602
Application 08/469,393
As a final matter with respect to claim 15, we note the claim is recited in such a
manner as to state that each transducing device of the plurality recited broadly to exist in
some kind of an array is said to provide the claimed magnetic field sensitivity. Again, this
is not supported by the discussion at the top of page 12 of the specification as filed
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because the recited value for the magnetic field sensitivity of about 3 x 10 T is an attribute
that is characteristic of the 100 - element SQUID sensor there and not of any individual
SQUID element per se within the array. Claim 15 does not properly recite that the alleged
magnetic field sensitivity is a property of the array as a whole.
Appellant’s alleged sensitivity is in part due greatly to the fact that the various
SQUIDs are serially connected into a planar array or a linear array. Yokozawa clearly
teaches and shows these features. The measure that appellant uses is apparently based
upon a consideration of only one SQUID as compared to a plurality in various forms and
various arrays as the basis for the enhanced sensitivity values. To round out our
consideration of this issue, we agree with the examiner’s statement at page 5 of the
answer that "[t]here are no characteristics recited of the claimed array which would
intrinsically provide the claimed sensitivity and bandwidth, and thus distinguish over
Yokozawa."
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