Appeal No. 2002-2194 Page 2
Application No. 09/594,532
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a towed acoustic source array of marine
sources such as vibrator sources and is especially suitable for use as a towed
geophysical array for underwater geophysical exploration applications (specification, p.
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's
brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Lefebvre 3,469,551 Sept. 30, 1969
Spink et al. 3,560,912 Feb. 2, 1971
(Spink)
Chaverebiere de Sal et al. 3,987,745 Oct. 26, 1976
(Chaverebiere de Sal)
Bjerkoy 5,157,636 Oct. 20, 1992
Elholm 5,532,975 July 2, 1996
Deplante et al. 5,784,335 July 21, 1998
(Deplante)
Claims 1, 4 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Spink in view of Elholm and Lefebvre.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Spink
in view of Elholm and Lefebvre and Deplante.
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