Ex parte HANSEN - Page 4




          Appeal No. 2000-0423                                                        
          Application No. 09/016,245                                                  


          source 130 to an exposure lamp (136) at a preselected time                  
          (the time when the intensity of the lamp drifts downward[)].”               
               In summary, the 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claims 1,              
          2 and 5 through 16 is reversed because each and every                       
          limitation of the claimed invention is not disclosed by Tung.               
          Glaxo Inc. v. Novopharm Ltd., 52 F.3d 1043, 1047, 34 USPQ2d                 
          1565, 1567 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 3378 (1995).                 
                                      DECISION                                        
               The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1, 2 and                 
          5 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed.                          


                                  REVERSED                                            




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