The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte TERRY BRICHENO and JAMES WILSON PARKER
Appeal No. 2001-2134
Application No. 09/101,276
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, KRASS and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-4.
The invention is directed to an assembly for combining the
outputs from a group of n single mode optical fibers onto the
photosensitive surface of a photodetector. In order to achieve
this, the assembly is comprised of an adiabatically tapered
-1-
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