Appeal No. 2003-0239
Application 09/382,437
Appellants’ invention relates to a supersonic inlet and,
more particularly, to an external-compression supersonic inlet
for an air-breathing propulsion system. Independent claim 1 is
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of that
claim can be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Lennard 3,430,640 Mar. 4, 1969
Ferguson et al. (Ferguson) 4,378,097 Mar. 29, 1983
Claims 1 and 9 through 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Lennard in view of Ferguson.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full commentary
regarding the above-noted rejection and the conflicting
viewpoints advanced by appellants and the examiner regarding the
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No.
10, mailed October 10, 2001) and the examiner's answer (Paper No.
16, mailed June 4, 2002) for the reasoning in support of the
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