Appeal No. 2003-0384
Application 09/557,718
to receive light passing therethrough, wherein, when the camera
is submerged in a stream of water, the housing body and front end
coact to position the camera in the stream of water with the
front end oriented upstream and with the back end oriented
downstream.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Carrington Des. 275,571 Sep. 18, 1984
Chapin, Jr. et al. (Chapin) 4,485,398 Nov. 27, 1984
Rink 5,778,259 Jul. 7, 1998
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 7 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Chapin.
Claim 8 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Chapin in view of Carrington.
Claims 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Chapin in view of Rink.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 18 and 20) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper
No. 19) for the respective positions of the appellant and the
examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Chapin, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
underwater camera 10 comprising a fluid-tight, elongated,
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