The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
____________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
____________
Ex parte KENNETH W. ALVES and THOMAS J. BROBST
____________
Appeal No. 2003-1486
Application No. 09/152,016
____________
HEARD: January 22, 2004
____________
Before TORCZON, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 4 through 11 and 13 through 18, which are all
of the claims pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a scanning apparatus with a
rotatable mirrored surface and a detector sized and positioned to
be fully illuminated in any rotation of the mirrored surface
without focusing the directed reflected light. Claim 4 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
4. An apparatus for scanning an object comprising:
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007