Appeal No. 2001-0259
Application 08/725,762
(Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for a statement of
appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Since claim 12 was incorporated into independent claim 11 by
the amendment after final rejection (Paper No. 8), the rejection
of claims 11 and 13 is now over § 103(a) instead of § 102(b).
Thus, we only consider appellant's arguments regarding Issue 4.
Jung discloses several embodiments of a sound collecting and
concentrating device. In the first embodiment of figures 1-3, a
plurality of sound collecting tubes 10 are attached to the
speaker frame 1 with each sound collecting tube positioned
directly concentric with one of the trapezoidal cut-outs in the
frame. The outlet ends 12 of the sound collecting tube have horn
attaching means 15, 16 (see figure 5) to permit attachment of a
conventional horn (col. 5, lines 21-23). In the third embodiment
of figures 8-1, 8-2, and 8-3, the sound collecting tube 51 having
an integral horn has an inlet end 52 with four inlet segments
53a, 53b, 53c, and 53d, each defining a separate tube which
combines with the tube 51, where each segment is attached over
one or more of the trapezoidal cut-outs in the loudspeaker frame
(col. 6, line 50 to col. 7, line 12). The first and third
embodiments show the sound collecting tubes covering all of the
trapezoidal cut-outs on the back area of the loudspeaker.
However, Jung states that "the inlet end segment(s) concentric
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