Appeal No. 2004-2121
Application No. 08/160,835
energy, the munition of appellants' invention comprises in
combination, a "general purpose bomb" (1) having a weight of not
less than 300 pounds and a penetrator warhead (2) mounted in
front of the general purpose bomb and comprising a forwardly-
directed shaped charge with a caliber of at least 90% of the
caliber of the general purpose bomb. A copy of representative
claim 1, as found in Appendix A of appellants' brief, is attached
to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Muller 3,732,816 May 15, 1973
Kintish et al. 3,750,582 Aug. 7, 1973
(Kintish)
Davis 4,063,512 Dec. 20, 1977
Chaumeau et al. 4,714,022 Dec. 22, 1987
(Chaumeau)
Kellner 4,967,666 Nov. 6, 1990
Brauer et al. 5,098,487 Mar. 24, 1992
(Brauer)
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Davis or Kellner.
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