Appeal No. 1999-1873 Page 2
Application No. 08/762,572
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a process for fabricating beryllium-based
multilayer x-ray mirrors useful in the wavelength region greater than the beryllium K-
edge (11.1nm) (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Shinohara 4,380,211 Apr. 19, 1983
Snyder 4,591,418 May 27, 1986
Suzuki et al. (Suzuki) 5,153,898 Oct. 6, 1992
Itou et al. (Itou) 5,272,744 Dec. 21, 1993
Fukuda et al. (Fukuda) 5,310,603 May 10, 1994
Tennant et al. (Tennant) 5,521,031 May 28, 1996
Asakawa et al. (Asakawa) JP 62-56568 Mar. 12, 1987
Nagata JP 63-32849 Feb. 12, 19882
Claims 13, 15 to 19, 21, 22 and 24 to 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over either Fukuda, Itou, Suzuki or Tennant in view of Snyder
and either Nagata, Asakawa or Shinohara.
2 In determining the teachings of Nagata and Asakawa, we will rely on the translations provided by
the USPTO. A copy of the translations are attached for the appellants' convenience.
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