Appeal No. 2000-1958
Application No. 08/854,620
various elements in different compound forms; and
a data analyzer for determining whether said measured
spectral line data include spectral lines of specified compound-
forming elements including oxygen, nitrogen and carbon and, if
said measured spectral line data include spectral lines of any of
said compound-forming elements, comparing said reference spectral
line data including chemical shifts with said measured spectral
line data to thereby identify elements in said sample.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Meyer et al. [Meyer] 5,218,529 Jun. 8, 1993
Robbat, Jr. et al. [Robbat] 5,668,373 Sep. 16, 1997
Claims 1, 2, 4 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as
unpatentable over Robbat in view of Meyer.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
It is the examiner’s position that Robbat discloses the
claimed data memory for storing spectral line data at column 7,
line 68-column 8, line 1; the data base memory for storing
reference spectral line data of various elements in different
compound forms at column 8, lines 7-18; and the data analyzer at
column 3, lines 34-55 and column 7, lines 63-65.
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